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A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it.
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
Andre Breto
René Dobrant
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I myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call, where everything hanging from the the ceiling and on the walls stays where it is as if by magic, where I sleep nights in a glass bed, under glass sheets, where who I am will sooner or later appear etched by a diamond.
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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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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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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
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There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
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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.
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My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.
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Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world of today.
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Words have finished flirting. Now they are making love.
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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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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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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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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.
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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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No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
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How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.
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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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