Domain Quote by Louis Aragon

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

Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real…

— Andre Breton

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

— Brad Holland

Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dreams, in the…

— Andre Breton

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

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

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

— Vincente Minnelli

Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different means by…

— Michael Richardson

“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 destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

— Salvador Dali

My images were surreal simply in the sense that my vision brought out the fantastic dimension of reality. My only aim was to express…

— Brassai

“Surrealism also refuses the representation of reality: reality can only be; its existence proves its reality. Fiction thereby becomes impossible or is, by definition,…

— Michael Richardson