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Andre Breton quotes: For me, the single word "God" suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque. For me, the single word "God" suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.
Andre Breton quotes: The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random. The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
Andre Breton quotes: A word and everything is saved.A word and all is lost. A word and everything is saved.
A word and all is lost.
Andre Breton quotes: The imaginary is that which tends to become real. The imaginary is that which tends to become real.
Andre Breton quotes: The imaginary is what tends to become real. The imaginary is what tends to become real.
Andre Breton quotes: We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing. We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.
Andre Breton quotes: To poke its umbrella tip in the mud of the electric light To poke its umbrella tip in the mud of the electric light
Andre Breton quotes: Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything. Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.
Andre Breton quotes: Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
Andre Breton quotes: Let us not mince words: The marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beauitful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful Let us not mince words: The marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beauitful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful
Andre Breton quotes: The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood. The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.
Andre Breton quotes: They rarely discovered a star red as a distant crime or a star-fish. They rarely discovered a star red as a distant crime or a star-fish.
Andre Breton quotes: This is the most beautiful night of all, the lightning filled night: day, compared to it, is night. This is the most beautiful night of all, the lightning filled night: day, compared to it, is night.
Andre Breton quotes: Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.' Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.'
Andre Breton quotes: Beauty will be convulsive or not at all. Beauty will be convulsive or not at all.
Andre Breton quotes: I love you on the surface of seasRed like the egg when it is green I love you on the surface of seas
Red like the egg when it is green
Andre Breton quotes: The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly
Andre Breton quotes: Is it true that the beyond, that everything beyond is here in this life? I can't hear you. Who goes there? Is it only me? Is it myself? Is it true that the beyond, that everything beyond is here in this life? I can't hear you. Who goes there? Is it only me? Is it myself?
Andre Breton quotes: The mind of the dreaming man is fully satisfied with whatever happens to it. The agonizing question of possibility does not arise. The mind of the dreaming man is fully satisfied with whatever happens to it. The agonizing question of possibility does not arise.
Andre Breton quotes: Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale. Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.
Andre Breton quotes: Words have finished flirting. Now they are making love. Words have finished flirting. Now they are making love.
Andre Breton quotes: What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real. What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.
Andre Breton quotes: There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself. There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
Andre Breton quotes: Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing. Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.
Andre Breton quotes: How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise. How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.
Andre Breton quotes: The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up. The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.
Andre Breton quotes: Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
Andre Breton quotes: My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness. My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.
Andre Breton quotes: A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it ... A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it ...
Andre Breton quotes: The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror ... if it has only the capacity to reflect. The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror ... if it has only the capacity to reflect.
Andre Breton quotes: Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting. Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.
Andre Breton quotes: With the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours. With the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.
Andre Breton quotes: The act of love and the act of poetry Are not compatibleWith the reading aloud of a newspaper The act of love and the act of poetry
Are not compatible
With the reading aloud of a newspaper
Andre Breton quotes: Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought. Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.
Andre Breton quotes: There's only one woman left in the absence of thought that characterizes in pure black this cursed era. There's only one woman left in the absence of thought that characterizes in pure black this cursed era.
Andre Breton quotes: Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession. Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
Andre Breton quotes: Life's greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose. Life's greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.
Andre Breton quotes: The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot. The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.
Andre Breton quotes: Tell me whom you haunt and I'll tell you who you are. Tell me whom you haunt and I'll tell you who you are.
Andre Breton quotes: When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas? When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?
Andre Breton quotes: Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling. Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.
Andre Breton quotes: I am the soul in limbo. I am the soul in limbo.
Andre Breton quotes: Words make love with one another. Words make love with one another.
Andre Breton quotes: No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist. No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
Andre Breton quotes: I wish I could change my sex as easily as I can change my shirt. I wish I could change my sex as easily as I can change my shirt.
Andre Breton quotes: In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again. In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.
Andre Breton quotes: I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys. I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys.
Andre Breton quotes: Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue. Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
Andre Breton quotes: Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject. Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
Andre Breton quotes: The truth can only be seen when you close your eyes to reason and surrender yourself to dreams. The truth can only be seen when you close your eyes to reason and surrender yourself to dreams.
Andre Breton quotes: It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere. It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
Andre Breton quotes: There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state. There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.
Andre Breton quotes: May night continue to fall upon the orchestra May night continue to fall upon the orchestra
Andre Breton quotes: Intellectually, true beauty is very difficult to distinguish a priori from the bloom of youth. Intellectually, true beauty is very difficult to distinguish a priori from the bloom of youth.
Andre Breton quotes: To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.
Andre Breton quotes: This cancer of the mind which consists of thinking all too sadly that certain things 'are,' while others, which well might be, 'are not. This cancer of the mind which consists of thinking all too sadly that certain things 'are,' while others, which well might be, 'are not.
Andre Breton quotes: The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb. The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
Andre Breton quotes: I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own. I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own.
Andre Breton quotes: It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and why my first concern is then to know what it looks out on. It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and why my first concern is then to know what it looks out on.
Andre Breton quotes: (speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the emotions of childhood. (speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the emotions of childhood.
Andre Breton quotes: If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable. If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
Andre Breton quotes: Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur. Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.
Andre Breton quotes: It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself. It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.
Andre Breton quotes: All my life my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. andre breton All my life my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. andre breton

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