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Andre Breton Inspirational Quotes (85)

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It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.
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Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.
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For me, the single word God suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.
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It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and why my first concern is then to know what it looks out on.
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One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according to rule, and why it still expects nothing save from violence.
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The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.
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There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
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Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.
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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.
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Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.
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How I loathe the servitude people try to hold up to me as being so valuable. I pity the man who is condemned to it, who cannot generally escape it, but it is not the burden of his labor that disposes me in his favor, it is - it can only be - the vigor of his protest against it.
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The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
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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.
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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.
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It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.
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Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.
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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.
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It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!
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The imaginary is what tends to become real.
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What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.
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There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.
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The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.
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I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors I will not go looking for keys.
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Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.
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