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Andre Breton Quotes

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself Picture Quote #1

... with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours Picture Quote #1

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all Picture Quote #1

May night continue to fall upon the orchestra Picture Quote #1

The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect Picture Quote #1

Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history Picture Quote #1

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Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real process of thought. Thought’s dictation, free from any control by the reason, independent of any aesthetic or moral preoccupation Picture Quote #1

I myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call, where everything hanging from the the ceiling and on the walls stays where it is as if by magic, where I sleep nights in a glass bed, under glass sheets, where who I am will sooner or later appear etched by a diamond Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and... My first concern is then to know what it looks out on Picture Quote #1

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions Picture Quote #1

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

$Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten Picture Quote #1$

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Let us not mince words.. the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful Picture Quote #1

The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly Picture Quote #1

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When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose Picture Quote #1

It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms Picture Quote #1

I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys Picture Quote #1

We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man’s passing Picture Quote #1

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Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself (Andre Breton Quotes) ... with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours (Andre Breton Quotes) Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all (Andre Breton Quotes) May night continue to fall upon the orchestra (Andre Breton Quotes) 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 Quotes) Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history (Andre Breton Quotes) Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real process of thought. Thought’s dictation, free from any control by the reason, independent of any aesthetic or moral preoccupation (Andre Breton Quotes) I myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call, where everything hanging from the the ceiling and on the walls stays where it is as if by magic, where I sleep nights in a glass bed, under glass sheets, where who I am will sooner or later appear etched by a diamond (Andre Breton Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and... My first concern is then to know what it looks out on (Andre Breton Quotes) Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue (Andre Breton Quotes) 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 Quotes) Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions (Andre Breton Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten (Andre Breton Quotes) What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find (Andre Breton Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Let us not mince words.. the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful (Andre Breton Quotes) The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly (Andre Breton Quotes) When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas? (Andre Breton Quotes) 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 Quotes) Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose (Andre Breton Quotes) It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms (Andre Breton Quotes) I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys (Andre Breton Quotes) We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man’s passing (Andre Breton Quotes)

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