Occupation: Writer Birth: February 19, 1896 Death: September 28, 1966
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 confu….
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 ….
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….
Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale..
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name..
The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood..
Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling..
Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing..
The imaginary is what tends to become real..
Dada is a state of mind..
When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?.
May night continue to fall upon the orchestra.
Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject..
Words make love with one another..
For me, the single word "God" suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque..
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 st….
It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself..
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist..
In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again..
The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry, where automatic writing, which….