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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
Andre Breton
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Andre Breton
Age: 70 †
Born: 1896
Born: February 18
Died: 1966
Died: September 28
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We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.
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To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.
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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
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When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?
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In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.
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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 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.
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Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dreams, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principle problems of life.
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A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it.
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I maintain that anyone who still refuses to see, for instance, a horse galloping on a tomato, must be an idiot. A tomato is also a child's balloon - Surrealism, again, having suppressed the word like.
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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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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
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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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I find it impossible to think of a picture save as a window, and my first concern about a window is to find out what it looks out on... and there is nothing I love so much as something which stretches away from me out of sight.
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The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.
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All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
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The imaginary is what tends to become real.
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The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
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Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.
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