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Surrealist Quotes

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs Picture Quote #1

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been Picture Quote #1

The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly Picture Quote #1

Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself Picture Quote #1

All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within a closed landscape whose landmarks constantly draw us toward the past. Certain shifting angles, certain receding perspectives, allow us to glimpse original conceptions of space, but this vision remains fragmentary. It must be sought in the magical locales of fairy tales and surrealist writings: castles, endless walls, little forgotten bars, mammoth caverns, casino mirrors Picture Quote #1

The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the surrealist preferences which rule photographic taste Picture Quote #1

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The story is also a sequence of moral and surrealist aesthetic. The sexual instinct and the sense of death form its substance Picture Quote #1

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it’s not Picture Quote #1

I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much Picture Quote #1

My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of ‘The Violation’ by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The original was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940, and I commissioned an artist I know, Brigid Marlin, to make a copy from a photograph. I never stop looking at this painting and its mysterious and beautiful women Picture Quote #1

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All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious. BOTH SIDES of the artist’s personality must play their part Picture Quote #1

I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream Picture Quote #1

Luis Bunuel’s two semishort surrealist hand grenades (cowritten in varying degrees with Salvador Dali) make a double bill that can restore your faith in the subversions of youth. Pure Spanish-Parisian piss and vinegar Picture Quote #1

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Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs (Surrealist Quotes) To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been (Surrealist Quotes) The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly (Surrealist Quotes) Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself (Surrealist Quotes) All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within a closed landscape whose landmarks constantly draw us toward the past. Certain shifting angles, certain receding perspectives, allow us to glimpse original conceptions of space, but this vision remains fragmentary. It must be sought in the magical locales of fairy tales and surrealist writings: castles, endless walls, little forgotten bars, mammoth caverns, casino mirrors (Surrealist Quotes) The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the surrealist preferences which rule photographic taste (Surrealist Quotes) The story is also a sequence of moral and surrealist aesthetic. The sexual instinct and the sense of death form its substance (Surrealist Quotes) I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it’s not (Surrealist Quotes) I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist (Surrealist Quotes) 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 (Surrealist Quotes) I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much. (Surrealist Quotes) My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of ‘The Violation’ by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The original was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940, and I commissioned an artist I know, Brigid Marlin, to make a copy from a photograph. I never stop looking at this painting and its mysterious and beautiful women. (Surrealist Quotes) All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious. BOTH SIDES of the artist’s personality must play their part. (Surrealist Quotes) I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream. (Surrealist Quotes) Luis Bunuel’s two semishort surrealist hand grenades (cowritten in varying degrees with Salvador Dali) make a double bill that can restore your faith in the subversions of youth. Pure Spanish-Parisian piss and vinegar. (Surrealist Quotes)