Quotes on Surrealist

I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.

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.

She gathers my half of the blankets around her and curls up against the wall. She will sleep for hours more, dreaming endless landscapes and novas of colour both gorgeous and frightening. If I stayed she would wake up and describe them to me. All the mad plot twists and surrealist imagery, so vivid to her while so meaningless to me. There was a time when I treasured listening to her, when I found the commotion in her soul bitter-sweet and lovely, but I can no longer bear it.

The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the surrealist preferences which rule photographic taste.

I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.

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

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.