Surrealism quotes

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◆ The imaginary is what tends to become real.

- Andre Breton100

◆ I want to meet a guy named Art. I'd take him to a museum, hang him on the wall, criticize him, and leave.

- Jarod Kintz100

◆ Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.

- Andre Breton99

◆ 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 Breton99

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

- Salvador Dali99

◆ So delicate are our souls but it is us and inside us that with which we pull our bodies. No direction is definite when the compass has no source and yet we must go on.

- Nicole Hill99

◆ A constant human error: to believe in an end to one's fantasies. Our daydreams are the measure of our unreachable truth. The secret of all things lies in the emptiness of the formula that guard them.

- Floriano Martins99

◆ 'Make a remark,' said the Red Queen; 'it's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding!'

- Lewis Carroll99

◆ Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.

- Angela Carter99

◆ Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality

- John Lennon99

◆ You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

- Dylan Moran99

◆ The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.

- Vincente Minnelli99

◆ Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

- John Lennon99

◆ Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.

- Brad Holland99

◆ Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

- Salvador Dali99