Surrealist Quotes

Surrealist Quote of the day

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.

I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract Art.

The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd.

Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

The Surrealist supernatural is a bit predictable but given the choice between supernatural and anything else, I would have no hesitation. Long live supernatural!

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.

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

I still love poetic imagery. I love the idea of using surrealist speak to generate lyrical content and I love the way English can be exciting in and of itself.

In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.

The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly

I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist.

There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.

We could say that Romanian Onirisme was born from painting and not from surrealist literature. The visual is primordial. Dimov said, 'Dreams are not a source, but a canon, a legislative model.'

I've always been a fan of reading art catalogues from exhibitions, and plays, and I've worked with a surrealist German playwright, Heiner Müller.

It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of.

Most artists are surrealists

I like Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.

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.