Andre Breton Quotes About Surrealism

Quotes about: Surrealism

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

  Andre Breton

  Dream, Omnipotence, Play

• 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.

  Andre Breton

  Mean, Psychics, Moral

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

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

  Andre Breton

  Childhood, Mind, Burning

• Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

  Andre Breton

  Fate, Finding Yourself, Trying

• What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

  Andre Breton

  Real, Fantastic, Surrealism

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

  Andre Breton

  Mirrors, Black, Firsts

• 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.

  Andre Breton

  Dream, Believe, Reality

• Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real process of thought. Thought's dictation, free from any control by the reason, independent of any aesthetic or moral preoccupation.

  Andre Breton

  Real, Independent, Writing

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

  Andre Breton

  Existence, Surrealism, Elsewhere

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

  Andre Breton

  Men, Color, Sky

• Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.

  Andre Breton

  Surrealism, Subjects, Objects

• 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

  People, Secret, Insane

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

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

  Andre Breton

  Gun, Hands, Cynicism

• One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according to rule, and why it still expects nothing save from violence.

  Andre Breton

  Violence, Expect Nothing, Insubordination

• If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.

  Andre Breton

  Discipline, Lines, Moral

• Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins.

  Andre Breton

  Memories, Love You, Hands

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

• 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.

  Andre Breton

  Dream, Reality, Psychics

  "Manifestoes of Surrealism". Book by André Breton, 1969.

• Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts on the mind very much as drugs do; like drugs, it creates a certain state of need and can push man to frightful revolts.

  Andre Breton

  Believe, Men, Drug

• Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins. Do not forget to make proper arrangements for your last will and testament: speaking personally, I ask that I be taken to the cemetery in a moving van. May my friends destroy every last copy of the printing of the Speech concerning the Modicum of Reality.

  Andre Breton

  Memories, Moving, Love You

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

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