40 Quotes by Andre Breton
Andre Breton was a French writer and poet who is credited with founding the surrealist movement in the early 20th century. Breton's work explored the subconscious mind and the world of dreams, and he believed that art and literature should be used to challenge traditional modes of thought and perception. He was an important figure in the development of modern art and his ideas continue to influence artists and thinkers today. (Bio)
Andre Breton Quotes
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.
Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling. (Meaning)
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
The imaginary is what tends to become real.
To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man...is above all the plaything of his memory.
Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express - verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner - the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.
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.
The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.
My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.
It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.
Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.
Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.
Words have finished flirting. Now they are making love.
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.
Words make love with one another. (Meaning)
What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life’s meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself - is not earned by work.
I am the soul in limbo.
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.
A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it.
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
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 living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.
The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect.
I love you on the surface of seas Red like the egg when it is green
Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.
The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows
The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly
Dada is a state of mind.
To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.
May night continue to fall upon the orchestra
Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.
...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.
Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
― Andre Breton Quotes
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