Choices Quote by Henri Michaux

We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the…

— Ivan Chtcheglov

I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.

— J. G. Ballard

I just play to progressive audiences. You know, if they're watching Discovery Channel, History Channel, that kind of thing, "Monty Python" have already laid…

— Eddie Izzard

There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.

— Thomas Pynchon

“Most people are realist. I consider myself a surrealist. Creativy drives past the point of what is real to a wonderland of infinite possibilities.”

— Andrinesha Dickson

If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned the corner…

— Duane Michals

I've always been a fan of reading art catalogues from exhibitions, and plays, and I've worked with a surrealist German playwright, Heiner Müller.

— Jenny Hval

I define Inner Space as an imaginary realm in which on the one hand the outer world of reality, and on the other the…

— J. G. Ballard

The more I look at most of the art movements, it's all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking…

— Alan Moore

In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.

— Hans Arp

The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to…

— Susan Sontag

Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy.

— Louise Bourgeois