192 Quotes About Surrealism
- Author Franz Kafka
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Gregor’s serious wound, from which he suffered for over a month - the apple remained imbedded in his flesh as a visible souvenir since no one dared to remove it - seemed to have reminded even his father that Gregor was a member of the family, in spite of his present pathetic and repulsive shape, who could not be treated as an enemy; that, on the contrary, it was the commandment of the family duty to swallow their disgust and endure him, endure him and nothing more.
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- Author André Breton
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The exquisite corpse will drink the young wine.(Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau.)
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- Author Leonora Carrington
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The skeleton's lodgings had an ancient head and modern feet. The ceiling was the sky, the floor the earth. It was painted white and decorated with snowballs in which a heart beat. He looked like a transparent monument dreaming of an electric breast, and gazed without eyes, with a pleasant and invisible smile, into the inexhaustible supply of silence that surrounds our star.
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- Author Salvador Dalí
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I don't do drugs I am drugs
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- Author Salvador Dalí
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The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
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- Author Lautreamont
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Neither I nor the four flippers of the sea-bear of the Boreal ocean have been able to solve the riddle of life.
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- Author Curtis Ackie
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As though eavesdropping, the whistling wind refuses to speak above a whisper. The winding road is cut into the side of the mountain in such a way that it seems they are not making any progress; the walk down will require endurance. She looks up at the cluster of clouds which have been pencilled in neatly against the sky, and hopes it doesn’t rain. It occurs rapidly, a geisha brusquely folding shut her fan; the sun sets, and brilliant darkness replaces light.
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- Author Gus Van Sant
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Dimension, Existence, Culture and Identity all splinter and are left behind.Pink Sound, brothers and sisters. Pinkness. It's dark. It's... flat. It is unexplainable... it is peaceful... it is love... ...it is...
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- Author Alfred Jarry
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One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.
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