Quotes on Surrealism

Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins.

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.

Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.

The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.

Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.

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.

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.