Quotes by
André Breton |
1896-1966 , French writer, founder of Surrealism
French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du surréalisme) of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as “pure psychic automatism”.
Along with his role as leader of the surrealist movement he is the author of celebrated books such as Nadja (1928) and L'Amour fou (1937).
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Quotations
| • | Pornography is the eroticism of others. 3 |
| • | Words have finished flirting. Now they are making love. 2 |
| • | One word and all is saved. One word and all is lost. 2 |
| • | No truth deserves to remain exemplary. 1 |
| • | Beauty will be convulsive or it won't be. 1 |
| • | Of all those arts in which the wise excel, the greatest gift is to write well. 1 |
| • | Dear imagination, what I love most about you is that you don't forgive. |
| • | All ideas that triumph are doomed. |
| • | Childhood is perhaps the closest to “real life”. |
| • | Poetry is made in a bed like love. Her undone sheets are the dawn of things. |
| • | Desire, the only source of the world, desire, the only rigor that man has to know. |
| • | Columbus had to leave with madmen to discover America. And see how this madness has taken shape and duration. |
| • | Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought. |
| • | Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject. |
| • | 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. |
| • | It is not the fear of madness that will force us to lower the flag of the imagination. |
| • | No rules exist, examples only come to the aid of rules that struggle to exist. |
| • | Humor, the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing. |
| • | For me, the single word “God” suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque. |
| • | As for me, my last wish is to be taken to the cemetery in a garbage truck. |
| • | Surrealism first recognized itself in the black mirror of anarchism. |
