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Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.
Andre Breton
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Andre Breton
Age: 70 †
Born: 1896
Born: February 18
Died: 1966
Died: September 28
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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
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Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.
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At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful.
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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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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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Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.
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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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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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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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I am the soul in limbo.
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The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
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Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.
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May night continue to fall upon the orchestra
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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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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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It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.
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There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.
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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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