Surreal Quotes

• I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high, poetic quality of Twitter - it lends itself to a surreal sort of self-expression.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Self, Expression, Quality

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• One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.

  Bradley Whitford

  Issues, Talking, Giving

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• And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'

  Javier Bardem

  Reality, Hands, Two

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

  Salvador Dali

  Photography, Vision, Shackles

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• To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.

  Rene Magritte

  Mean, Remembrance, Mind

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Reality

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• The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

  Susan Sontag

  Beauty, Time, Past

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.69, Macmillan

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• It's so surreal being here.

  Scotty McCreery

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• Even my nighttime dreams are very, very rooted in reality. They just start to become surreal, little by little.

  Hiro Murai

  Dream, Reality, Littles

  "Q&A: Atlanta Director Hiro Murai On Working With Donald Glover, Dream Logic, And That 'Black Justin Bieber' Episode". Interview with Eric Ducker, www.mtv.com. October 4, 2016.

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• When you get praise from someone that you really admire it's really surreal.

  Jeremy Renner

  Praise, Admire

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's definitely surreal to watch yourself in a movie.

  Justin Long

  Watches

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. April 7, 2010.

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• Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

  Salvador Dali

  Museums, Trying, Purpose

  Salvador Dali (2013). “The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí”, p.397, Courier Corporation

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• The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.

  Graham Joyce

  Dream, Surrealism

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• I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.

  Marguerite Young

  Real, Book, Writing

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• They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

  Frida Kahlo

  Dream, Reality, Portraits

  Frida Kahlo (1978). “Frida Kahlo, 1910-1954: an exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago”

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• No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions.

  Terence McKenna

  Attitude, Atmosphere, West

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• My images were surreal simply in the sense that my vision brought out the fantastic dimension of reality. My only aim was to express reality, for there is nothing more surreal than reality itself. If reality fails to fill us with wonder, it is because we have fallen into the habit of seeing it as ordinary.

  Brassai

  Reality, Vision, Ordinary

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• I dream in colour, and its always very surreal. My dream world is complete Hieronymus Bosch and Dali. I love it, I look forward to it every night

  John Lennon

  Dream, Night, Looks

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• What's great about science fiction is that it allows for surreal scenarios even if they pertain to the real world.

  Larissa Sansour

  Real, World, Science Fiction

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• Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe.

  Ezra Koenig

  Credit, Enough, Universe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.

  Hugo Weaving

  Creating, Kind, Film

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• In these surreal days, there is one truth. Nothing justified the killing of innocent people in America last week and nothing justifies the killing of innocent people anywhere else.

  John Pilger

  America, People, Lasts

  "Blair has made Britain a target" by John Pilger, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2001.

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• I came home one day from school after being chased by kids singing “Yellow Submarine”, and I didn't understand why. It just seemed surreal: why are they singing that song to me? I came home and I freaked out on my dad: 'Why didn't you tell me you were in The Beatles?' And he said, 'Oh, sorry. Probably should have told you that.'

  Dhani Harrison

  Song, Sorry, Dad

  "The Quiet One" by John W. Whitehead, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2011.

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• I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their realistic ponds.

  Mason Cooley

  Ponds, Frogs, Realistic

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• Survivor Series is something that was very surreal to me to be a part of, but now, I just want to do it again.

  CM Punk

  Survivor, Want, Series

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. December 1, 2006.

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