Commonplace Quote by Graham Joyce

Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.

— Brad Holland

This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it…

— Salman Rushdie

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

“A stubborn refusal of the conditions of 20th Century 'reality', surrealism has denied intransigently and consistently that modern man can live without a sense…

— Michael Richardson

Surrealism is my stamp. I have a post graduate diploma in theatre and I was introduced to this concept and it stuck by me…

— Tanikella Bharani

Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the…

— Octavio Paz

The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of.

— Michel Gondry

Let's say punk rock was described to you as 'three chords of rock music played roughly.' Would that be sufficient? If you looked up…

— Novala Takemoto

MTV has severely compromised surrealism, perhaps ruined it forever.

— Donald Barthelme

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what…

— Rene Magritte

Surrealism! What is Surrealism? In my opinion, it is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of the subject…

— Paul Delvaux