Andre Breton Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
More Andre Breton quote about:
- Art,
- Dreams,
- Eyes,
- Heart,
- Imagination,
- Love,
- Memories,
- Reality,
- Surrealism,
- Writing,
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“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”
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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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“The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.”
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“I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.”
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“The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.”
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“All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.”
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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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“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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“Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.”
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“Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.”
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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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“Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.”
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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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“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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“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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“May night continue to fall upon the orchestra”
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“The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly”
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“The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows”
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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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“It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.”
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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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“I love you on the surface of seas Red like the egg when it is green”
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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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“...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.”
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“A game: say something. Close your eyes and say something. Anything, a number, a name. Like this (she closes her eyes): Two, two what? Two women. What do they look like? Wearing black. Where are they? In a park. . . . And then, what are they doing? Try it, it's so easy, why don't you want to play? You know, that's how I talk to myself when I'm alone, I tell myself all kinds of stories. And not only silly stories: actually, I live this way altogether.”
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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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“Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.”
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“A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it...”
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