Asking Quote by Virgil Thomson

Our Onirisme movement was a synthesis between the Romantic Fantastique and Surrealism. Dimov and I rejected automatic writing. We loved surrealist painters: Chirico, Magritte,…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.

— Frida Kahlo

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

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

— Leo Ornstein

When I was an adolescent, I abandoned my country at 23 years to come to Paris to know Andre Breton, the 'Pope of Surrealism.'…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That…

— Robert Morris

“[Who are the artists you admire, Surrealist or otherwise?] Remedios Varo, Max Ernst, Charlotte Salomon, Goya, Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley is not so much about…

— Audrey Niffenegger

From his very first works, it was clear that Henri Sauguet would bring spontaneity, romance, and a nonacademic approach back to modern music.

— Christian Dior

Modern European composers...have very largely received their stimulus, their rhythms and impulses from Machine Age America. They have a much older tradition of musical…

— George Gershwin

“Every amateur harbors the fantasy that his work is only waiting to be discovered; a second fantasy-that the established contemporary artists must also be…

— Janet Malcolm

“philosophical writers after his time: nor again must his simplicity of thought and occasional quaintness be reproduced in the form of archaisms of language;…

— Herodotus

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

— Alejandro Jodorowsky