Surrealism Quotes

As humans, we have invented lots of useful kinds of lie. As well as lies-to-children ('as much as th...

Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its princip...

One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poe...

Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.

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

There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect ...

The imaginary is what tends to become real.

Il faut que l’homme s’évade de cette lice ridicule qu’on lui a faite: le prétendu réel actuel avec l...

The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in ...

May night continue to fall upon the orchestra

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

We are in front of a fountain, whose jet she seems to be watching. 'Those are your thoughts and mine...

I am the soul in limbo.

My wife with the hair of a wood fireWith the thoughts of heat lightningWith the waist of an hourglas...

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

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

... from the classically executed lifelike bouquets, tempting you to reach for the petals that fell ...

There are easier ways of making sense,the connoisseurship of gesture, for example.You hold a girl's ...

They floated for a while, two flesher-shaped creatures and a giant worm in a cloud of spinning metal...

Strictly speaking, it might not be a dream. It was reality, but a reality imbued with all the qualit...

Wasn't much of a life anyway. Wasn't much of a brain.""But didn't you say you were satisfied with yo...

Once she called to invite me to a concert of Liszt piano concertos. The soloist was a famous South A...

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

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insan...

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

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Jesus to Pilate:"The trouble is," the bound man went on, not stopping by anyone, "that you are too c...

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

There is another world, but, it is in this one.

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

Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' — 'Because when they are ...

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

All the wild beasts have been extinct for years, but it's perfectly possible to synthesize them auto...

I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like...