155 Quotes by André Breton

Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.

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.

The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.

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.

Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.

Words make love with one another.

It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.

The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.

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.