Andre Breton Quotes

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

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  Dream, Omnipotence, Play

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• Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

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  Love, Inspiring, Marriage

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• The imaginary is what tends to become real.

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  Real, Reality, Imaginary

  The White-Haired Revolver (1932)

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• All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

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  Love, Heart, Names

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• Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.

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  Reality, Process, Brushes

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• It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

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  Existence, Surrealism, Elsewhere

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• I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.

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  Dream, Believe, Reality

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• Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.

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  Love You, Issues, Dating

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• Words have finished flirting. Now they are making love.

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  Flirting, Making Love, Finished

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• To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.

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  Mean, Perception, Awareness

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• It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.

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  Mirrors, Black, Firsts

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• The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect.

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  Eye, Mirrors, Roles

  "Arshile Gorky: Goats on the Roof : a Life in Letters and Documents". Book by Arshile Gorky, 2009.

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• Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express - verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner - the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.

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  Mean, Psychics, Moral

  "First Manifesto of Surrealism". Book by Andre Breton, 1924.

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• My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

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  Love, Pregnancy, Wish

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• Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.

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  Dream, Should, Objects

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• I maintain that anyone who still refuses to see, for instance, a horse galloping on a tomato, must be an idiot. A tomato is also a child's balloon - Surrealism, again, having suppressed the word "like."

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  Horse, Men, Imagination

  "Break of Day". Book by Andrä Breton, 1999.

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• I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man...is above all the plaything of his memory.

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  Dream, Memories, Men

  "First Manifesto of Surrealism". Book by Andre Breton, 1924.

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• Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

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  Death, Real, Believe

  "Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939". Book by Georges Bataille, p. 41, 1985.

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• There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

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  Atheism, Liberty, Danger

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• At the outset, it is only liking, not understanding, that matters. Gaps in understanding ... are not only important, they are perhaps even welcome, like clearings in the woods, the better to allow the heart's rays to stream out without obstacle. The unlit shadows should remain obscure, which is the very condition of enchantment.

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  Heart, Poetry, Understanding

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• The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.

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  Art, Bombs, Ribbons

  "Surrealism and Painting". Book by André Breton, 1972.

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• The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.

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  Childhood, Mind, Burning

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• I am the soul in limbo.

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  Soul, Limbo

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• 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.

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  Looks, Firsts, Impossible

  Surrealism and Painting (1928)

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• To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

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  God, Thinking, Atheism

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