Occupation: Writer Birth: February 19, 1896 Death: September 28, 1966
Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything..
The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the cr….
Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly cl….
The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has contributed not a ….
Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dreams, in the….
Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.'.
It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere..
It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other age….
...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours..
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 ….
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable..
I maintain that anyone who still refuses to see, for instance, a horse galloping on a tomato, must be an idiot. A tomato is also a child's balloon - ….
I am the soul in limbo..
Let us not mince words: the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful..
One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according to rule,….
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 allow….
How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise..
To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I h….
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 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..
There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state..