Top 100 Quotes About Breton
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Day by day his sister grew
Paler with the wound
She could not see or touch or feel, as I dressed it
Each day with her blue Breton jacket.
- from Life After Death
Ted Hughes
#4. I just love Cape Breton fiddling! I think it's very close. They derive their music from Scottish music. Well, in Donegal we're very influenced by Scottish music as well. Independently the two areas became very alike, because they kind of changed the music a bit from Scotland and we did the same.
Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh
#5. I write better in Cape Breton ... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
Farley Mowat
#6. I have a lot of Breton striped top and silk shirts that always feel good. I also like things with a masculine edge and dislike anything too girly.
Jessica Raine
#8. All my life my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. andre breton
Andre Breton
#9. I have the faith of a Breton peasant and by the time I die I hope to have the faith of a Breton peasant's wife.
Louis Pasteur
#10. I might be the hazardous waste site that polluted it, but Cape Breton Island is still my home.
Rebecca McNutt
#11. Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
Natalie MacMaster
#12. Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me, so, in turn, will I tell it over again, to the best of my art and knowledge. Hearken now to my story, its why and its reason.
Marie De France
#13. I think I am the most impressed with writing styles that defy category, like Kharms or Selby, Breton or Jarry, where you become as interested in the writer as much as the writing itself. It's all these things that make reading so appealing to me.
Henry Rollins
#14. The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#15. I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.
Frida Kahlo
#16. On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.
Richard Serra
#17. Malachi Smith. Crispin Jones. Suzette Boudrot. Claude Le Breton." Matthew paused as Ransome searched the ledger's entries for the names. "You should have kept them in chronological order instead of alphabetical. That's how I remember them." Ransome
Deborah Harkness
#18. Jules Breton has spoken of the history of his life as being at the same time the genesis of his art. This is true of Nikola Tesla's evolution. His bent toward invention we may surely trace to his mother, who, as the wife of an eloquent clergyman in the Greek Church, made
Nikola Tesla
#19. I am a very musical person. I love music, and I don't just love Cape Breton fiddling, although it's my favorite.
Natalie MacMaster
#20. Could I but know all, I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman
Louis Pasteur
#21. I once owned a home on an island off the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
Joseph Monninger
#22. I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all!
Alexander Graham Bell
#23. Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's aim should be a profound likeness, which physically and morally predicts the subject's entire future.
Bill Brandt
#24. You see these young people in Antigonish who are coming from Cape Breton, and these are really smart, attractive young people, who are living in a place that's been very rough economically. It's a very special thing to be helpful there.
Gerry Schwartz
#25. She comes to naught, my dear one, she comes to naught, all that there business. What the hell, maybe twice in your life you have yourself a whore of a good time, and then you spend every night of the rest of your life trying to get that good time back. But she comes to naught.
Lynn Coady
#26. May night continue to fall upon the orchestra
Andre Breton
#27. Well, we're originally from Glace Bay."
Grandma Elsie's eyes glittered. She was looking at one of her own, a lost Cape Bretoner in need of help and offering a new story. "Tell me all about it, dear.
Beatrice Rose Roberts
#28. 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
#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. Again begins the ridiculous, terrible waiting, in which we do not know which object to move, which gesture to repeat - what to do in order to make what we are waiting for happen.
Andre Breton
#31. I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the contrary, is pre-eminently an optimist.
Jules Breton
#32. The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.
Andre Breton
#33. Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
Andre Breton
#34. There has never been any forbidden fruit. Only temptation is divine. To feel the need to vary the object of this temptation, to replace it by others - this bears witness that one is about to be found unworthy, that one has already doubtless proved unworthy of innocence ...
Andre Breton
#35. In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.
Andre Breton
#36. 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
#37. The truth can only be seen when you close your eyes to reason and surrender yourself to dreams.
Andre Breton
#38. They rarely discovered a star red as a distant crime or a star-fish.
Andre Breton
#39. Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.
Andre Breton
#40. The imaginary is that which tends to become real.
Andre Breton
#41. If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
Andre Breton
#42. 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
#43. Intellectually, true beauty is very difficult to distinguish a priori from the bloom of youth.
Andre Breton
#44. No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
Andre Breton
#45. 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
#46. The act of love and the act of poetry
Are not compatible
With the reading aloud of a newspaper
Andre Breton
#47. My legion has won many victories. And since you are my dearest friend, we will fight that much harder." His intense, dark eyes locked with hers. "I swear to you: Ker-Ys will not fall.
Jennifer McKeithen
#49. The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.
Andre Breton
#50. Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
Andre Breton
#51. A word and everything is saved.
A word and all is lost.
Andre Breton
#52. 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
#53. Sing a song of Tar Ponds City, party full of lies! Four and twenty liars, seventeen hands caught in pies! When the pie was cut, Hugh Briss began to sing! Wasn't that a stonewall rat to set before the Fossil's ding?
Beatrice Rose Roberts
#54. The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror ... if it has only the capacity to reflect.
Andre Breton
#55. The artist should not be satisfied to only play the part of a mirror.
Jules Breton
#56. The mind of the dreaming man is fully satisfied with whatever happens to it. The agonizing question of possibility does not arise.
Andre Breton
#57. There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.
Andre Breton
#58. There is By my leaning over the precipice Of your presence and your absence in hopeless fusion My finding the secret Of loving you Always for the first time
Andre Breton
#59. It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
Andre Breton
#60. This is the most beautiful night of all, the lightning filled night: day, compared to it, is night.
Andre Breton
#61. The imaginary is what tends to become real.
Andre Breton
#62. I find it impossible to think of a picture save as a window, and my first concern about a window is to find out what it looks out on ... and there is nothing I love so much as something which stretches away from me out of sight.
Andre Breton
#63. Courbet comes in 1849 with the intention of overthrowing past art and constructing it anew. While he speaks only of realism, of which he proclaims himself the messiah, his pictures show pre-eminently those qualities which are learned in the museums.
Jules Breton
#64. Is it true that the beyond, that everything beyond is here in this life? I can't hear you. Who goes there? Is it only me? Is it myself?
Andre Breton
#65. In this part of Canada, it was assumed that the passengers would provide each other with entertainment.
Beatrice Rose Roberts
#66. No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
Andre Breton
#67. Let us not mince words: The marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beauitful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful
Andre Breton
#68. The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
Andre Breton
#70. I was painting her portrait in the little studio, and when I came to the eyes I stopped, overcome by emotion, and said to her, 'Have you understood me?' She nodded affirmatively. 'Will you be my wife?' I asked. She made the same affirmative sign.
Jules Breton
#71. Smile for the camera, pretty little Sydney Tar Ponds.
Rebecca McNutt
#72. I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.
Jules Breton
#73. Man proposes and dispose. He and he alone can determine whether he is completely master of himself, that is, whether he maintains the body of his desires, daily more formidable, in a state of anarchy.
Andre Breton
#74. I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse.
Nicholas Breton
#75. The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
Andre Breton
#76. How I loathe the servitude people try to hold up to me as being so valuable. I pity the man who is condemned to it, who cannot generally escape it, but it is not the burden of his labor that disposes me in his favor, it is
it can only be
the vigor of his protest against it.
Andre Breton
#77. 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
#78. Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
Andre Breton
#79. (speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the emotions of childhood.
Andre Breton
#80. It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and why my first concern is then to know what it looks out on.
Andre Breton
#81. At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful.
Andre Breton
#82. It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.
Andre Breton
#84. Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.
Nicholas Breton
#85. A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it ...
Andre Breton
#86. Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
Andre Breton
#87. There is nothing new under the sun, not even Manet.
Jules Breton
#88. The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows
Andre Breton
#89. Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.
Andre Breton
#90. I would like to sleep, in order to surrender myself to the dreamers, the way I surrender myself to those who read me with eyes wide open; in order to stop imposing, in this realm, the conscious rhythm of my thought.
Andre Breton
#91. How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.
Andre Breton
#92. The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.
Andre Breton
#93. Past and future monopolize the poet's sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world of today.
Andre Breton
#94. ... 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
#95. To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.
Andre Breton
#97. The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros's work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us.
Andre Breton
#98. When the north wind blew across the tar ponds, voices were carried away.
Jonathan Campbell
#99. I love you on the surface of seas
Red like the egg when it is green
Andre Breton
#100. Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.
Andre Breton
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