155 Quotes by André Breton

The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.

Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.

Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.

Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, infamous, sullying, and grotesque is contained for me in this single word: God

The man that cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot

For me, the single word “God” suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature’s chief masterpiece is writing well.

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.

The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly.