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What bothers me most about my teeth is that they don't travel loin south, don't sprout from the Mother Mouth. Vagina dentata, come closah, say high. ~ Virginia Petrucci
Surrealism quotes by Virginia Petrucci
We are in front of a fountain, whose jet she seems to be watching. 'Those are your thoughts and mine. Look where they all start from, how high they reach, and then how it's still prettier when they fall back. And then they dissolve immediately, driven back up with the same strength, then there's that broken spurt again, that fall ... and so on indefinitely. ~ Andre Breton
Surrealism quotes by Andre Breton
Dreams are memories.
Memories are dreams.
But my time with you hasn't become a dream just yet.
Because the sensation of your kisses
keep me from sleep.
I'm in love,
God help me, I'm in love. ~ F.K. Preston
Surrealism quotes by F.K. Preston
The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood. ~ Andre Breton
Surrealism quotes by Andre Breton
In the shadows he could just make out a rough, ghostly wall that stood out in the pitch darkness. As if drawn by an irresistible black beacon, he slowly advanced step by step towards that incandescent wall of shale. Far off, the city was vanishing into the air. The fiesta disappeared somewhere beyond his eyelids. The wall was increasing in size, growing amidst a mixture of shadows and sparks. It was a wall of smoke from which sprouted candles that resembled asteroids. In fact, it was not one wall but two. Two tall, crackling walls, silently burning. But it wasn't two walls either. It was, in fact, a street. ~ Eugenio Fernandez Granell
Surrealism quotes by Eugenio Fernandez Granell
That's what dreams are really like, you know? They're not full of melting clocks or floating roses or people made out of rocks. Most of the time, dreams look just like the normal world. It's your feelings that tell you something's off. Not your mind, not your intellect, not something as obvious as that. The only part of you that really knows what's going on is the part of you that's most a mystery. If that's not Surrealism, I don't know what is. ~ Amy Reed
Surrealism quotes by Amy Reed
I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway ~ Leonora Carrington
Surrealism quotes by Leonora Carrington
Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typography. ~ Tristan Tzara
Surrealism quotes by Tristan Tzara
The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism, Dynamic Double-Dog Realism, Ishkabibbleism, and Mama, which is like Dada only nicer. ~ Daniel Pinkwater
Surrealism quotes by Daniel Pinkwater
What is infinity? I haven't a clue.
But maybe that's the whole point I've been attempting to explain to you.
The fact that it's not known
Or seen
Or heard.
Infinity is every person, every being, every bird.
Infinity is a simple mystery.
It looks like a mystery.
Tastes mysterious.
Feels like something completely delirious.
We cannot imagine what this sound could be.
All we can imagine is infinity. ~ F.K. Preston
Surrealism quotes by F.K. Preston
May night continue to fall upon the orchestra ~ Andre Breton
Surrealism quotes by Andre Breton
Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject. ~ Andre Breton
Surrealism quotes by Andre Breton
As an evil cultist, I make an excellent evil cultist. Only I'm stupid, and not evil. And I worship nothing, really. ~ Will Advise
Surrealism quotes by Will Advise
This is the most beautiful night of all, the lightning filled night: day, compared to it, is night. ~ Andre Breton
Surrealism quotes by Andre Breton
Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious. ~ Douglas McCulloh
Surrealism quotes by Douglas McCulloh
Subconsciously, we all want to be nebula ... In the end, we're all connected. We're all going to become one cloud of light whether you like it or not. We're all made of the same star dust. ~ Jason Daniel Chaplin
Surrealism quotes by Jason Daniel Chaplin
All the wild beasts have been extinct for years, but it's perfectly possible to synthesize them autobiogenically. On the other hand, why be bound to what was once produced by natural evolution? The spokesman for surrealist zoology was most eloquent - we should populate our preserves with bold, original conceptions, not slavish imitations, we should forge the New, not plagiarize the Old. ~ Stanislaw Lem
Surrealism quotes by Stanislaw Lem
The play takes place on a ramp, hanging from a ramp, below a ramp, and to the sides of a ramp. ~ Rosalyn Drexler
Surrealism quotes by Rosalyn Drexler
Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light. ~ Jyrki Vainonen
Surrealism quotes by Jyrki Vainonen
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all ~ Nikolai Gogol
Surrealism quotes by Nikolai Gogol
Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation ... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial pact, poetry is the basic text, the foundation of the human order. Surrealism is revolutionary because it is a return to the beginning of all beginnings. ~ Octavio Paz
Surrealism quotes by Octavio Paz
How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise. ~ Andre Breton
Surrealism quotes by Andre Breton
Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail. ~ Salman Rushdie
Surrealism quotes by Salman Rushdie
Surrealism runs through the streets, ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Surrealism quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Like dreams, his texts combine precise "realistic" detail with absurdity, careful observation and reasoning on the part of the protagonists with inexplicable obliviousness and carelessness. ~ Hartmut M. Rastalsky
Surrealism quotes by Hartmut M. Rastalsky
Surrealism! What is Surrealism? In my opinion, it is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of the subject but in a very particular sense, that of the strange and illogical. ~ Paul Delvaux
Surrealism quotes by Paul Delvaux
Oh,' said a very white body as it threw a wrist watch to the ground which broke without attracting anyone's attention, 'Oh, how can anyone not love poetry, natural machines, large white houses, the brilliance of steel, crimes and wild passions? ~ Robert Desnos
Surrealism quotes by Robert Desnos
When people use the term magic realism, usually they only mean 'magic' and they don't hear 'realism', whereas the way in which magic realism actually works is for the magic to be rooted in the real. It's both things. It's not just a fairytale moment. It's the surrealism that arises out of the real. ~ Salman Rushdie
Surrealism quotes by Salman Rushdie
Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision. ~ Octavio Paz
Surrealism quotes by Octavio Paz
But in those first hours after you take it, your brain is tuned in like nothing you can imagine. Eyes like the Hubble telescope, sensing light that's not even on the spectrum. You might be able to read minds, make time stop, cook pasta that's exactly right every time. ~ David Wong
Surrealism quotes by David Wong
Pessimism is a towering skyscraper eighty stories high in the suburbs of the soul at the end of a long avenue with waste ground on either side and a few poorly-stocked little shops. Several ultra-fast staircases give access to the building, running up from the cellars to the roof-gardens. The comfort of this place leaves nothing to be desired and only the greatest luxury is acceptable, but every Friday the residents gather on the ground floor to read from a bible bound in the skin of a blind man. The psalmic words they intone rise up through the pipes, sigh in the stoves and sweep the chimneys coated inside with black grease which leaves dirt on the skin. Water runs constantly in the bathrooms and the showers beat down on the numbered bodies, peppering them with sand. On Sundays the bed linen unrolls by itself and nobody makes love. For this tower block, like an obscure phallus scraping the vulva of the sky, is usually a hive of sexual activity. The most beautiful woman lives there, but no-one has ever known her. It is said, that dressed in furs and feathers, she keeps herself shut away in a first-floor apartment as if in a white safe. Her windows are scissors which cut short both shadow and breath. Her name is AURORA. ~ Michel Leiris
Surrealism quotes by Michel Leiris
I am a prostitute. I don't want to know the client. I just want money, lots of money. My seed rises into the glorious eruption of a majestic orgasm when I picture the Divine Dali rolling in money. - Salvador Dalí ~ Carlos Lozano
Surrealism quotes by Carlos Lozano
I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect. The anything-goes, anarchic qualities of jazz and Surrealism seemed to offer a way to cross some of the forbidden frontiers of Eastern Europe. ~ Nicholas Royle
Surrealism quotes by Nicholas Royle
I dozed, jolting occasionally at the driver's loud pronouncement of upcoming stops. At this early hour the bus hummed along quietly with few passengers, so the stops were infrequent. In the hazy surrealism of predawn, there really was not much to see
what I could make out was mainly countryside, though not what I would call quaint, and certainly no Shakespearean cottages or fairy folk peeping from the trees. ~ Carolyn Weber
Surrealism quotes by Carolyn Weber
The Coach's head was oblong with tiny slits that served as eyes, which drifted in tides slowly inward, as though the face itself were the sea or, in fact, a soup of macromolecules through which objects might drift, leaving in their wake, ripples of nothingness. The eyes - they floated adrift like land masses before locking in symmetrically at seemingly prescribed positions off-center, while managing to be so closely drawn into the very middle of the face section that it might have seemed unnecessary for there to have been two eyes when, quite likely, one would easily have sufficed. These aimless, floating eyes were not the Coach's only distinctive feature - for, in fact, connected to the interior of each eyelid by a web-like layer of rubbery pink tissue was a kind of snout which, unlike the eyes, remained fixed in its position among the tides of the face, arcing narrowly inward at the edges of its sharp extremities into a serrated beak-like projection that hooked downward at its tip, in a fashion similar to that of a falcon's beak. This snout - or beak, rather - was, in fact, so long and came to such a fine point that as the eyes swirled through the soup of macromolecules that comprised the man's face, it almost appeared - due to the seeming thinness of the pink tissue - that the eyes functioned as kinds of optical tether balls that moved synchronously across the face like mirror images of one another.

'I wore my lizard mask as I entered the tram, last evening, and ~ Ashim Shanker
Surrealism quotes by Ashim Shanker
I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconscious. Some things you can't really get your hands on very easily. Things that are kind of nebulous and they feel like they're not completely formed. You have to feel your way through that. ~ Gotye
Surrealism quotes by Gotye
I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone. ~ Salvador Dali
Surrealism quotes by Salvador Dali
Reality is changing Viena. You can not stop the cycle. ~ Veronica Purcell
Surrealism quotes by Veronica Purcell
After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions. ~ Trevor Dunn
Surrealism quotes by Trevor Dunn
When I was an adolescent, I abandoned my country at 23 years to come to Paris to know Andre Breton, the 'Pope of Surrealism.' And for three years, I was there working with him being a surrealist. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
Surrealism quotes by Alejandro Jodorowsky
He'll be what he'll be. And we'll all learn to be okay with whatever that is. ~ Joseph Fink
Surrealism quotes by Joseph Fink
Suddenly he stopped as if rooted outside the doors of one house; before his eyes an inexplicable phenomenon occurred: a carriage stopped at the entrance; the door opened; a gentleman in a uniform jumped out, hunching over, and ran up the stairs. What was Kovalev's horror as well as amazement when he recognized him as his own nose! ~ Nikolai Gogol
Surrealism quotes by Nikolai Gogol
Everyday objects shriek aloud. ~ Rene Magritte
Surrealism quotes by Rene Magritte
Like I said, basements usually smell like surrealism. But kitchens and gardens almost always smell like impressionism.

Because our kitchen is part of a basement apartment, it smells like the early impressionism of Vincent Van Gogh - all big strokes of umber and ochre - a peppery greasy I-love-you smell. ~ Emil Ferris
Surrealism quotes by Emil Ferris
There are easier ways of making sense,
the connoisseurship of gesture, for example.
You hold a girl's face in your hands like a vase.
You lift a gun from the glove compartment
and toss it out the window into the desert heat. ~ Billy Collins
Surrealism quotes by Billy Collins
Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' - 'Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through every mouth, and in their innards miracles occur; a little bit of one story joins on to an idea from another, and hey presto, when they spew the stories out they are not the old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new. ~ Salman Rushdie
Surrealism quotes by Salman Rushdie
Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These are in themselves ideas from an extrahuman world. ~ Pierre Janet
Surrealism quotes by Pierre Janet
Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis and as synthesis, it was a criticism of appearance. Surrealism transmuted the object, and suddenly a canvas became an apparition: a new figuration, a real transfiguration. ~ Octavio Paz
Surrealism quotes by Octavio Paz
My cartoon strips in college strived to have the Schulzian mix of surrealism and Charlie Brown angst. A bit of that combo shows up in 'Up.' ~ Bob Peterson
Surrealism quotes by Bob Peterson
Multi-colored lights flashed and glared on the wet road and cast eerie reflections, reminiscent of artistic surrealism. Fillion imagined that his distress and anger swirled and moved with the refracted lights, creating an urban masterpiece of demented fury. ~ Jesikah Sundin
Surrealism quotes by Jesikah Sundin
If the reality makes you unhappy, make yourself happy with the surreal! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Surrealism quotes by Mehmet Murat Ildan
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. ~ Andre Breton
Surrealism quotes by Andre Breton
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. ~ Andre Breton
Surrealism quotes by Andre Breton
Poetry is a machine that manufactures love. Its other virtues escape me. ~ Jean Cocteau
Surrealism quotes by Jean Cocteau
I gazed upon the earth and saw that a body, in its tender faithlessness, had located it in the sky. A splendid scarf of blood, looming above the abyss. ~ Joe Bousquet
Surrealism quotes by Joe Bousquet
For me taking part in the decay of present-day man is an entertaining task and the only one that interests me. ~ Tristan Tzara
Surrealism quotes by Tristan Tzara
Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. ~ Susan Sontag
Surrealism quotes by Susan Sontag
She's not a pothead. That thing on her neck is a vase. And anyway, I'm all for legalization. After all, why should surrealism be illegal? ~ Jarod Kintz
Surrealism quotes by Jarod Kintz
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 little to encourage such hypocrisy, has for a long while ceased to merit discussion. ~ Andre Breton
Surrealism quotes by Andre Breton
This is one of those California moments, and these two women now have their own dose of surrealism to share with their friends: the mostly naked, mountaintop cello player and his even more naked, duck holding friend. Everyone here grooves on those stories, where the line between locals and tourists blur, and for a moment we're all Californians because we share the same love. ~ Edmond Manning
Surrealism quotes by Edmond Manning
Being alone in the dark - surrounded by silence, frightful. Thoughts breathe a life of their own; twisting and turning on each other as enemies unto themselves. ~ Veronica Purcell
Surrealism quotes by Veronica Purcell
I still love the sound of breaking,
the tearing of the page ~ Dean Young
Surrealism quotes by Dean Young
As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism. ~ Mark Mothersbaugh
Surrealism quotes by Mark Mothersbaugh
Everything leads us to believe that there exists a spot in the mind from which life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future, the high and the low, the communicable and the incommunicable will cease to appear contradictory. ~ Andre Breton
Surrealism quotes by Andre Breton
I am spilling fire on every side. But I do not trust the 500 billion flames which I am training like dogs. ~ Paul Eluard
Surrealism quotes by Paul Eluard
Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end. ~ Henry Miller
Surrealism quotes by Henry Miller
Half asleep, he wondered whether that might not have been his happiest day ever, the last, perfect day swelling with the immensity of his secret intent, secret creation - the day before everything changed - the day before he realized, for the first time, yet with absolute finality, just how small his private immensity really was when measured against that other vast, dark, impersonal immensity, call it God, or history, or simply life. ~ Olga Grushin
Surrealism quotes by Olga Grushin
When I write my novels, I'm not writing them to make political points. I'm writing them because I passionately love monsters and the weird and horror stories and strange situations and surrealism, and what I want to do is communicate that. But, because I come at this with a political perspective, the world that I'm creating is embedded with many of the concerns that I have. But I never let them get in the way of the monsters. ~ China Mieville
Surrealism quotes by China Mieville
Back in our apartment, lights out, The Professor emerged from beneath the bed." - from "The Professor Spends the Night," in issue 4 of Literary Orphans ~ Joseph Patrick Pascale
Surrealism quotes by Joseph Patrick Pascale
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. ~ John Lennon
Surrealism quotes by John Lennon
This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death. ~ Rene Daumal
Surrealism quotes by Rene Daumal
Let us not mince words: The marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beauitful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful ~ Andre Breton
Surrealism quotes by Andre Breton
Exit, pursued by a bear. ~ William Shakespeare
Surrealism quotes by William Shakespeare
There are no coincidences, only mysteries that haven't been solved, clues that haven't been placed. Most are blind to the language of the bird overhead, the leaf in our path, the phonographic record stuck in a groove, the unknown caller on the phone. They don't see the omens. They don't know the signs. ~ Sara Gran
Surrealism quotes by Sara Gran
Surrealism could not be made up. It was the very electricity of the real. ~ Lorrie Moore
Surrealism quotes by Lorrie Moore
Here is a paradox. It would seem that there cannot be surrealism and photography, but only photography or surrealism. ~ Rosalind E. Krauss
Surrealism quotes by Rosalind E. Krauss
Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts on the mind very much as drugs do; like drugs, it creates a certain state of need and can push man to frightful revolts. ~ Andre Breton
Surrealism quotes by Andre Breton
The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride. ~ Vincente Minnelli
Surrealism quotes by Vincente Minnelli
A stubborn refusal of the conditions of 20th Century 'reality', surrealism has denied intransigently and consistently that modern man can live without a sense of wonder at the world that was once embodied in myth. In approaching literature, it has aimed at restoring to the word its magical qualities. And at giving back to language the elemental power it once had within society. This determinism lies at the heart of the surrealist attitude and distinguishes it radically from the modernism which took shape contemporaneously with it. ~ Michael Richardson
Surrealism quotes by Michael Richardson
Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life. ~ Vincente Minnelli
Surrealism quotes by Vincente Minnelli
Refusing what Adorno called that 'comfort in the uncomfortable' taken by the fantastic, surrealism seeks to reintegrate man into the universe. ~ Michael Richardson
Surrealism quotes by Michael Richardson
Just because someone is a loner, it doesn't mean they're alone. And just because someone is alone, it doesn't mean they're lonely. ~ Jason Daniel Chaplin
Surrealism quotes by Jason Daniel Chaplin
From the classically executed lifelike bouquets, tempting you to reach for the petals that fell on a three-dimensional tablecloth, to a new and disturbing style in which the colors seemed to blaze with such intensity they destroyed the old lines, the old solidity, to make a vision like those states which I'm nearest my delirium and flowers grow before my eyes and crackle like the flames of lamps. ~ Anne Rice
Surrealism quotes by Anne Rice
Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I simply should recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten. ~ Andre Breton
Surrealism quotes by Andre Breton
My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision. poetry, surrealism and magic [to design]. ~ Philippe Starck
Surrealism quotes by Philippe Starck
L'union libre [Freedom of Love]"

My wife with the hair of a wood fire
With the thoughts of heat lightning
With the waist of an hourglass
With the waist of an otter in the teeth of a tiger
My wife with the lips of a cockade and of a bunch of stars of the last magnitude
With the teeth of tracks of white mice on the white earth
With the tongue of rubbed amber and glass
My wife with the tongue of a stabbed host
With the tongue of a doll that opens and closes its eyes
With the tongue of an unbelievable stone
My wife with the eyelashes of strokes of a child's writing
With brows of the edge of a swallow's nest
My wife with the brow of slates of a hothouse roof
And of steam on the panes
My wife with shoulders of champagne
And of a fountain with dolphin-heads beneath the ice
My wife with wrists of matches
My wife with fingers of luck and ace of hearts
With fingers of mown hay
My wife with armpits of marten and of beechnut
And of Midsummer Night
Of privet and of an angelfish nest
With arms of seafoam and of riverlocks
And of a mingling of the wheat and the mill
My wife with legs of flares
With the movements of clockwork and despair
My wife with calves of eldertree pith
My wife with feet of initials
With feet of rings of keys and Java sparrows drinking
My wife with a neck of unpearled barley
My wife with a throat of the valley ~ Andre Breton
Surrealism quotes by Andre Breton
If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept. ~ Andre Breton
Surrealism quotes by Andre Breton
Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen. ~ Georges Limbour
Surrealism quotes by Georges Limbour
I am the soul in limbo. ~ Andre Breton
Surrealism quotes by Andre Breton
The real importance of automatism lay in the fact that it led to a different relation between the artist and the creative act. Where the artist had traditionally been seen as someone who invents a personal world, bringing into being something unique to his own 'genius', the surrealists conceived themselves as explorers and researchers rather than 'artist' in the traditional sense and it was discovery rather than invention that became crucial for them. ~ Michael Richardson
Surrealism quotes by Michael Richardson
More interestingly, it could be argued that, if fantasy (and debatably the literature of the fantastic as a whole) has a purpose other than to entertain, it is to show readers how to perceive; an extension of the argument is that fantasy may try to alter readers' perception of reality. Of course, quack religions (etc.) make similar attempts, but a major difference is that, while the latter attempt to convert people to their codified way of thinking, the best fantasy introduces its readers into a playground of rethought perception, where there are no restrictions other than those of the human imagination. In some modes of the fantastic – e.g., magic realism and surrealism – the attempt to alter the reader's perception is overt, but most full-fantasy texts have at their core the urge to change the reader; that is, full fantasy is by definition a subversive literary form. ~ John Clute
Surrealism quotes by John Clute
The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The observation of the unconscious, so far as it can be observed, should reveal things of which we have previously been unconscious, not the familiar things of which we have been conscious plus imagination. p. 919 ~ Wallace Stevens
Surrealism quotes by Wallace Stevens
But no matte what kind of an understanding is adopted, whether associated with positivism, which asserts that the truth can only be reached by trial and error, or rationalism, which asserts that everything can be explained and grasped by reason, whether the perspective of romanticism, which overemphasizes imagination and sensitivity, or an approach based on ardent naturalism, whether based on realism, which aims to describe everything as it is including its shortcomings, or a curiosity-raising approach such as surrealism, whether idealism, which asserts that there is nothing real but ideas, or cubism, which asserts that there is nothing real but instead of direct description, or some other such current or perspective, that is not true poetry. ~ M. Fethullah Gulen
Surrealism quotes by M. Fethullah Gulen
I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart. ~ Jenny Eclair
Surrealism quotes by Jenny Eclair
You're better looking than me. You're more intelligent than me. Your personality is more likable than mine. You make more money than me. Your family is nicer than mine. Your religion is better than mine. You've seen more beaches than me. You've been to more cities than me. Your automobile is nicer than mine. Your significant other is better looking than mine. Your candidate won. Your home team won. You're number one. But life is a tie. We all die. ~ Jason Daniel Chaplin
Surrealism quotes by Jason Daniel Chaplin
By giving words the latitude she does, (Marianne) Van Hirtum emphasizes their contagious qualities: they become almost like viruses, with which it is necessary to put oneself in harmony by sympathetic magic if one is not to be overwhelmed ... What is essential is to become one with the sickness, that is, in the context of language as a whole, to enter into contact with words. ~ Michael Richardson
Surrealism quotes by Michael Richardson
Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
Surrealism quotes by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Ayami was her future self or her past self. And she was both, existing at the same time. In that other world, she was both the chicken and the old woman. That was the secret of night and day existing simultaneously. Ayami discovered this through a single movement, bending down to pick up the pebble. And, remembering this simultaneous existence more vividly than she remembered herself, became unable to remember anything else. ~ Bae Suah
Surrealism quotes by Bae Suah
I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration. ~ Arthur Holitscher
Surrealism quotes by Arthur Holitscher
Our Onirisme movement was a synthesis between the Romantic Fantastique and Surrealism. Dimov and I rejected automatic writing. We loved surrealist painters: Chirico, Magritte, Tanguy and especially Brauner (also a Romanian), who never respected the laws that Breton imposed in his manifests. ~ Dumitru Tepeneag
Surrealism quotes by Dumitru Tepeneag
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