192 Quotes About Surrealism

Like dreams, his texts combine precise "realistic" detail with absurdity, careful observation and reasoning on the part of the protagonists with inexplicable obliviousness and carelessness.

For me taking part in the decay of present-day man is an entertaining task and the only one that interests me.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.

Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I simply should recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.

I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.

It is not right that everyone should read the pages which follow; only a few will be able to savour this bitter fruit with impunity. Consequently, shrinking soul, turn on your heels and go back before penetrating further into such uncharted, perilous wastelands. Listen well to what I say: turn on your heels and go back, not forward,[...]