Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.
The imaginary is what tends to become real.
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.
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."
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.
Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.
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.
It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.
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.
Words have finished flirting. Now they are making love.
My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.
I am the soul in limbo.
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.
Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.
It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
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.
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.
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.
The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dreams, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principle problems of life.
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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