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I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.

Andre Breton

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Andre Breton
Age: 70 †
Born: 1896
Born: February 18
Died: 1966
Died: September 28
Art Theorist
Drawer
Essayist
Novelist
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Chicago
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Andre Breton
D'André Breton
Andre Breto
René Dobrant
Two
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Contradictory
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Resolution
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Future
Speak
Reality
Surrealism

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Dada is a state of mind.
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We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.
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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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Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real process of thought. Thought's dictation, free from any control by the reason, independent of any aesthetic or moral preoccupation.
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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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There is By my leaning over the precipice Of your presence and your absence in hopeless fusion My finding the secret Of loving you Always for the first time
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Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.
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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.
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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.
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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.
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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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The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
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Let us not mince words: the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful.
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The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect.
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The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.
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