Top 30 Breton Surrealism Quotes
#1. It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.
Andre Breton
#2. ... It would be hateful to refuse whatever she asks of me, one way or another, for she is so pure, so free of any earthly tie, and cares so little, but so marvelously, for life.
Andre Breton
#3. 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
#4. The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.
Andre Breton
#5. We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.
Andre Breton
#6. The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.
Andre Breton
#7. Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I simply should recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
Andre Breton
#8. 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
#9. There's only one woman left in the absence of thought that characterizes in pure black this cursed era.
Andre Breton
#10. What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.
Andre Breton
#11. The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream, the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has contributed not a little to encourage such hypocrisy, has for a long while ceased to merit discussion.
Andre Breton
#12. Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.
Andre Breton
#14. ... I know that if I were mad, after several days of confinement I should take advantage of any lapses in my madness to murder anyone, preferably a doctor, who came near me. At least this would permit me, like the violent, to be confined in solitary. Perhaps they'd leave me alone.
Andre Breton
#15. How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.
Andre Breton
#16. May night continue to fall upon the orchestra
Andre Breton
#17. There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life's meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself - is not earned by work.
Andre Breton
#18. The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
Andre Breton
#19. Let us not mince words: The marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beauitful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful
Andre Breton
#20. The imaginary is what tends to become real.
Andre Breton
#21. This is the most beautiful night of all, the lightning filled night: day, compared to it, is night.
Andre Breton
#22. There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.
Andre Breton
#23. The act of love and the act of poetry
Are not compatible
With the reading aloud of a newspaper
Andre Breton
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
Andre Breton
#28. Our Onirisme movement was a synthesis between the Romantic Fantastique and Surrealism. Dimov and I rejected automatic writing. We loved surrealist painters: Chirico, Magritte, Tanguy and especially Brauner (also a Romanian), who never respected the laws that Breton imposed in his manifests.
Dumitru Tepeneag
#29. Everything leads us to believe that there exists a spot in the mind from which life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future, the high and the low, the communicable and the incommunicable will cease to appear contradictory.
Andre Breton
#30. When I was an adolescent, I abandoned my country at 23 years to come to Paris to know Andre Breton, the 'Pope of Surrealism.' And for three years, I was there working with him being a surrealist.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
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