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The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.
Andre Breton
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Andre Breton
Age: 70 †
Born: 1896
Born: February 18
Died: 1966
Died: September 28
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D'André Breton
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All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
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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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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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What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.
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At the outset, it is only liking, not understanding, that matters. Gaps in understanding ... are not only important, they are perhaps even welcome, like clearings in the woods, the better to allow the heart's rays to stream out without obstacle. The unlit shadows should remain obscure, which is the very condition of enchantment.
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Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.
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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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A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it.
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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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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
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The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
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For me, the single word God suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.
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The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.
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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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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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May night continue to fall upon the orchestra
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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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Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
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