155 Quotes by André Breton

Today, no one is scandalized; society has found ways to nullify the provocative potential of a work of art, adopting before it an attitude of consumerist pleasure.

El abrazo poético, como el abrazo carnal, mientras dura, prohíbe toda caída en la miseria del mundo.

Ich glaube an die künftige Auflösung dieser scheinbar so gegensätzlichen Zustände von Traum und Wirklichkeit in einer Art absoluter Realität, wenn man so sagen kann: Surrealität. Nach ihrer Eroberung strebe ich, sicher, sie nicht zu erreichen, zu unbekümmert jedoch um meinen Tod, um nicht zumindest die Freuden eines solchen Besitzes abzuwägen.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

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.