Surrealism Quotes

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My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision, poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

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.

Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.

Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.

The imaginary is what tends to become real.

When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without knowing it.

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

The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.

It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.

Let my enemies devour each other.

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

Exit, pursued by a bear.

Perhaps because of this, many have looked at my practice in terms of science and technology, however, for me it is just as informed by Surrealism and mythology.

I am the soul in limbo.

Now the night's breath responds to the sea, which I can scarcely hear from here, as it reminisces about its shipwrecks.

The surrealism of my pictures was nothing but the real made eerie by vision. I was trying to express reality, for there is nothing more surrealist.

Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.

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

The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.

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

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

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.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.

Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy.

Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!

Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was.

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.

Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.

The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the aesthetic of undermining and creative alienation that I really go for.

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.

I thought that punk in its original state was a revolutionary movement. But like surrealism, it failed in its revolutionary attempt.

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.

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.

Three men riding on a bicycle which has only one wheel, I guess that's surrealism.

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.

Here is a paradox. It would seem that there cannot be surrealism and photography, but only photography or surrealism.

May night continue to fall upon the orchestra

The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.

There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.

American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.

MTV has severely compromised surrealism, perhaps ruined it forever.

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.

Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.