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. 4 |
| • | One word and all is saved. One word and all is lost. 3 |
| • | Words have finished flirting. Now they are making love. 3 |
| • | Of all those arts in which the wise excel, the greatest gift is to write well. 2 |
| • | Beauty will be convulsive or it won't be. 2 |
| • | No truth deserves to remain exemplary. 2 |
| • | Surrealism first recognized itself in the black mirror of anarchism. 1 |
| • | As for me, my last wish is to be taken to the cemetery in a garbage truck. 1 |
| • | For me, the single word “God” suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque. 1 |
| • | Humor, the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing. 1 |
| • | No rules exist, examples only come to the aid of rules that struggle to exist. 1 |
| • | It is not the fear of madness that will force us to lower the flag of the imagination. 1 |
| • | 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. 1 |
| • | Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject. 1 |
| • | Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought. 1 |
| • | Columbus had to leave with madmen to discover America. And see how this madness has taken shape and duration. 1 |
| • | Desire, the only source of the world, desire, the only rigor that man has to know. 1 |
| • | Poetry is made in a bed like love. Her undone sheets are the dawn of things. 1 |
| • | Childhood is perhaps the closest to “real life”. 1 |
| • | All ideas that triumph are doomed. 1 |
| • | Dear imagination, what I love most about you is that you don't forgive. 1 |
