The simplest surrealist act consists in going into the street with revolvers in your fist and shooting blindly into the crowd as much as possible. Anyone who has never felt the desire to deal thus with the current wretched principle of humiliation and stultification clearly belongs in this crowd himself with his belly at bullet height.
Andr Breton
To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.
Andr Breton
The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.
Andr Breton
Let us not mince words.. the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful.
Andr Breton
In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.
Andr Breton
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.
Andr Breton
Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, infamous, sullying, and grotesque is contained for me in this single word: God.
Andr Breton
Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.
Andr Breton