Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old surrealism quotes, surrealism sayings, and surrealism proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
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
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Surrealism could not be made up. It was the very electricity of the real.Lorrie Moore
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Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end.Henry Miller
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Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.Susan Sontag
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The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.Graham Joyce
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The key to surrealism is to create something apparently disparate and irrational that at the end has more sense than the objective world.Cisco Jimenez
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Refusing to idealize, the Surrealists awakened a sensitivity to the arbitrary and the unusual. Sidra Stich
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Surrealism is not a movement. It is a latent state of mind perceivable through the powers of dream and nightmare.Salvador Dali
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Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society.Andre Breton
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The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly.Andre Breton
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Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.Salvador Dali
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.Octavio Paz
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To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.Rene Magritte
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Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.Andre Breton
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Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial pact, poetry is the basic text, the foundation of the human order. Surrealism is revolutionary because it is a return to the beginning of all beginnings.Octavio Paz
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.Salvador Dali
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The objective of surrealism is to make use of the dream, which will open the way to the great mystery of life in the cause of his own art.Nathalia Brodskaia
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Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.Frida Kahlo
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Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different means by which to explore reality itself.Michael Richardson
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Surrealism, which fizzled as an autonomous doctrine, as a specific method, does not exist. But it remains an historical fact, a fire that illuminates the intellectual landscape of the horizon.Paul Nouge
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Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.Brad Holland
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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
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Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.Susan Sontag
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It is a little bit surreal to know that you are in your own little spaceship, and a few inches from you is instant death.Scott Kelly
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In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.Milton Glaser
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The stress in surrealism is always upon life and thought, not on literature or technique. To a surrealist everything is dictated by the place which art has in life. Art would lose its function if it were separated from the problems of everyday living.Silvano Levy
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Surrealism is born of a consciousness of the derisory condition allotted to the individual and his thought, and a refusal to accommodate oneself to it.Jean-Louis Bedouin
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Surrealism sought to maintain its autonomy and the right to continue its own particular investigations into ways of changing consciousness, the role of the unconscious within the social body, and the current state of language both visual and verbal.Dawn Ades
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Surrealism was a perception of reality over which reason was denied the opportunity to exercise confining restrictions.John Herbert Matthews