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Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.'
Andre Breton
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Andre Breton
Age: 70 †
Born: 1896
Born: February 18
Died: 1966
Died: September 28
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Andre Breton
D'André Breton
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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.
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Dada is a state of mind.
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Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.
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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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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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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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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
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Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
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A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it.
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Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.
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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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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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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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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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I love you on the surface of seas Red like the egg when it is green
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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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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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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
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