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Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason. — Angela Carter

I am spilling fire on every side. But I do not trust the 500 billion flames which I am training like dogs. — Paul Eluard

The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random. — Andre Breton

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures. — Vincente Minnelli

A mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'. — Lee Friedlander

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

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision. — Octavio Paz

Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream. — Graham Joyce

The imaginary is what tends to become real. — Andre Breton

Oh, sheep. I've lost all my sobbing colours. — Dave McKean

Neither I nor the four flippers of the sea-bear of the Boreal ocean have been able to solve the riddle of life. — Comte De Lautreamont

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

We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing. — Andre Breton

Happiness is not found in serenity, tranquility or surrealism. It is found in harmony of thoughts, actions, and reality. — Debasish Mridha

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone. — Salvador Dali

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

I think it was more personal, but I certainly tried to adapt certain concepts of Surrealism. — Trevor Dunn

This is the most beautiful night of all, the lightning filled night: day, compared to it, is night. — Andre Breton

After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions. — Trevor Dunn

This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death. — Rene Daumal

Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise! — Salvador Dali

As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table. — Comte De Lautreamont

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. — Salvador Dali

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real. — Andre Breton

The type of work I do, which is often called 'Pop Surrealism,' is very separate from Gagosian and Mary Boone type of gallery art. — Molly Crabapple

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

Reality is changing Viena. You can not stop the cycle. — Veronica Purcell

THE ACT OF KILLING invents a new form of cinematic surrealism. — Werner Herzog

My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision. poetry, surrealism and magic [to design]. — Philippe Starck

Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen. — Georges Limbour

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 runs through the streets, — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

There's only one woman left in the absence of thought that characterizes in pure black this cursed era. — Andre Breton

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

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws. — Marcel Duchamp

Refusing what Adorno called that 'comfort in the uncomfortable' taken by the fantastic, surrealism seeks to reintegrate man into the universe. — Michael Richardson

The act of love and the act of poetry
Are not compatible
With the reading aloud of a newspaper — Andre Breton

Surrealism comes for us all, Thibaut thinks. — China Mieville

Sure, people can make you happy, but no one can stop you from being happy. — Jason Daniel Chaplin

Dreams are memories we've lost to sleep. — F.K. Preston

The play takes place on a ramp, hanging from a ramp, below a ramp, and to the sides of a ramp. — Rosalyn Drexler

I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway — Leonora Carrington

Cubism is a Cathedral of shit. — Francis Picabia

I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration. — Arthur Holitscher

For me, surrealism is in my blood; it's not an effort. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

Surrealism could not be made up. It was the very electricity of the real. — Lorrie Moore

The surrealism of my pictures was nothing but the real made eerie by vision. I was trying to express reality, for there is nothing more surrealist. — Brassai

Everyday objects shriek aloud. — Rene Magritte

Exit, pursued by a bear. — William Shakespeare

My cartoon strips in college strived to have the Schulzian mix of surrealism and Charlie Brown angst. A bit of that combo shows up in 'Up.' — Bob Peterson

I am the soul in limbo. — Andre Breton

I was raised by boys. I can hold my own, I can fight, and I love horror movies - simply for the scare factor and the surrealism. — Jessica Stroup

The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up. — Andre Breton

One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity. — Alfred Jarry

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self. — Milton Glaser

How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise. — Andre Breton

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all — Nikolai Gogol

Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typography. — Tristan Tzara

There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state. — Andre Breton

Three men riding on a bicycle which has only one wheel, I guess that's surrealism. — Dong Kingman

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

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. — Joan Miro

Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was. — John Lennon

Now the night's breath responds to the sea, which I can scarcely hear from here, as it reminisces about its shipwrecks. — Joe Bousquet

Several people toss and turn in their sleep, startled by the lines of the newspapers in their dreams, knives out, lights out, lights out, knives out! — H.C. Artmann

Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject. — Andre Breton

I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play. — Sylvia Plath

MTV has severely compromised surrealism, perhaps ruined it forever. — Donald Barthelme

Here is a paradox. It would seem that there cannot be surrealism and photography, but only photography or surrealism. — Rosalind E. Krauss

I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart. — Jenny Eclair

The only word in the Martian language is written phonetically:
Kay-ray-kh-kuh-ko-kex.
It means whatever you want it to mean. — Blaise Cendrars

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings. — Salvador Dali

That's a beautiful speech, but nobody's listening. Let's go. — Alfred Jarry

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. — Susan Sontag

Surrealism is not a movement. It is a latent state of mind perceivable through the powers of dream and nightmare. — Salvador Dali

It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself. — Andre Breton

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life. — Vincente Minnelli

Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts. — Frida Kahlo

The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous. — Salvador Dali

I still love the sound of breaking,
the tearing of the page — Dean Young

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

Surrealism is the triumph of form over content. — Gloria Steinem

We write the earth we stand upon. — Laura K. Cowan

May night continue to fall upon the orchestra — Andre Breton

As an evil cultist, I make an excellent evil cultist. Only I'm stupid, and not evil. And I worship nothing, really. — Will Advise

The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride. — Vincente Minnelli

Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light. — Jyrki Vainonen

Just because someone is a loner, it doesn't mean they're alone. And just because someone is alone, it doesn't mean they're lonely. — Jason Daniel Chaplin