Dreams Quote by Salvador Dali

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

Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens…

— Henry Miller

“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

Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the…

— Andre Breton

Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was.

— John Lennon

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

— John Lennon

Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.

— Salman Rushdie

Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.

— Susan Sontag

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

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

— Louise Bourgeois

Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.

— Andre Breton

I love surrealism.

— Machine Gun Kelly