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For me, the single word "God" suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.
— Andre Breton
The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
— Andre Breton
A word and everything is saved.
A word and all is lost. — Andre Breton
A word and all is lost. — Andre Breton
The imaginary is that which tends to become real.
— Andre Breton
I once owned a home on an island off the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
— Joseph Monninger
When the north wind blew across the tar ponds, voices were carried away.
— Jonathan Campbell
The imaginary is what tends to become real.
— Andre Breton
Much ado there was, God wot;
He woold love, and she woold not,
She sayd, "Never man was trewe;"
He sayes, "None was false to you." — Nicholas Breton
He woold love, and she woold not,
She sayd, "Never man was trewe;"
He sayes, "None was false to you." — Nicholas Breton
Alecto isn't a person! He's just something that society made and then threw away, a memory that refuses to die.
— Rebecca McNutt
To poke its umbrella tip in the mud of the electric light
— Andre Breton
Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.
— Andre Breton
Mr. Breton didn't know about location, location, location.
— Daniel Pinkwater
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
— Andre Breton
Let us not mince words: The marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beauitful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful
— Andre Breton
The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.
— Andre Breton
This is the most beautiful night of all, the lightning filled night: day, compared to it, is night.
— Andre Breton
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
Beauty will be convulsive or not at all.
— Andre Breton
The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly
— Andre Breton
In this part of Canada, it was assumed that the passengers would provide each other with entertainment.
— Beatrice Rose Roberts
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
The mind of the dreaming man is fully satisfied with whatever happens to it. The agonizing question of possibility does not arise.
— Andre Breton
Words have finished flirting. Now they are making love.
— Andre Breton
What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.
— Andre Breton
My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.
— Andre Breton
Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.
— Andre Breton
Who can live in heart so glad
As the merry country lad? — Nicholas Breton
As the merry country lad? — Nicholas Breton
Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.
— Andre Breton
How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.
— Andre Breton
I might be the hazardous waste site that polluted it, but Cape Breton Island is still my home.
— Rebecca McNutt
May night continue to fall upon the orchestra
— Andre Breton
I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.
— Jules Breton
I am a very musical person. I love music, and I don't just love Cape Breton fiddling, although it's my favorite.
— Natalie MacMaster
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
Good wares make good markets.
— Nicholas Breton
The act of love and the act of poetry
Are not compatible
With the reading aloud of a newspaper — Andre Breton
Are not compatible
With the reading aloud of a newspaper — Andre Breton
Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.
— Andre Breton
There's only one woman left in the absence of thought that characterizes in pure black this cursed era.
— Andre Breton
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
— Andre Breton
Life's greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.
— Andre Breton
Tell me whom you haunt and I'll tell you who you are.
— Andre Breton
With the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.
— Andre Breton
There is nothing new under the sun, not even Manet.
— Jules Breton
Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.
— Nicholas Breton
When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?
— Andre Breton
There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.
— Andre Breton
It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
— Andre Breton
The truth can only be seen when you close your eyes to reason and surrender yourself to dreams.
— Andre Breton
Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
— Andre Breton
Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
— Andre Breton
I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse.
— Nicholas Breton
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
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
Intellectually, true beauty is very difficult to distinguish a priori from the bloom of youth.
— Andre Breton
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
— Andre Breton
I have the faith of a Breton peasant and by the time I die I hope to have the faith of a Breton peasant's wife.
— Louis Pasteur
Words make love with one another.
— Andre Breton
Super 8 film is the language of silence.
— Rebecca McNutt
Smile for the camera, pretty little Sydney Tar Ponds.
— Rebecca McNutt
I am the soul in limbo.
— Andre Breton
Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.
— Andre Breton
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
We rise with the lark and go to bed with the lamb.
— Nicholas Breton
Shall we go dance the hay, the hay?
Never pipe could ever play
Better shepherd's roundelay. — Nicholas Breton
Never pipe could ever play
Better shepherd's roundelay. — Nicholas Breton
Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.
— Andre Breton
I'm definitely falling in love with you.
— Anya Breton
The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
— Sabine Baring-Gould
The true is not material reality only.
— Jules Breton
(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
The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
— Andre Breton