192 Quotes About Surrealism

That's a beautiful speech, but nobody's listening. Let's go.

The full moon shone brightly between the trees, so I was able to see, a few yards in front of me, the origins of a distressing noise. It was two cabbages having a terrible fight. They were tearing each other's leaves off with such ferocity that soon there was nothing but torn leaves everywhere and no cabbages."Never mind," I told myself, "It's only a nightmare." But then I remembered suddenly that I'd never gone to bed that night, and so it couldn't possibly be a nightmare. "That's awful.

Everyday objects shriek aloud.

Birds will be boredIf I'd forgotten somethingRing the bells of those school dismissals in the seaWhat we shall call pensive borageWe start by giving the solution to the contestTo wit how many tears can be held in a woman's hand1. as little as possible2. in a medium-sized handWhile I crumple this star-lit paperAnd while the everlasting flesh has once and for all takenpossession of the mountain summitsI live like a recluse in a little house in the VaucluseHeart king's order

[T]here is an osmosis from fiction to reality, a constant contamination which distorts the truth behind both and fuzzes the telling distinctions in life itself, categorizing real situations and feelings by a set of rules largely culled from the most hoary fictional clichés, the most familiar and received nonsense.

[David] Salle's earlier work had been marked by a kind of spaciousness, sometimes an emptiness, such as surrealist works are prone to. But here everything was condensed, impacted, mired. The paintings were like an ugly mood.

Reality is changing Viena. You can not stop the cycle.

There is another world, but, it is in this one.

Surrealism comes for us all, Thibaut thinks.