192 Quotes About Surrealism

He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has no talent for words, neither for paints nor music; his uselessness is tremendously total.

Dreams are memories we’ve lost to sleep.

Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typography.

We are the prisoners of the mechanical orgy pursued inside the earth, for we have dug mines, underground galleries through which we sneak in a band beneath the cities that we want to blow up.

Poetry is a machine that manufactures love. Its other virtues escape me.

Reality will be very boring for those who fall in love with the surreal!

If the reality makes you unhappy, make yourself happy with the surreal!

Black and white pictures create a surreal magic!

But in those first hours after you take it, your brain is tuned in like nothing you can imagine. Eyes like the Hubble telescope, sensing light that's not even on the spectrum. You might be able to read minds, make time stop, cook pasta that's exactly right every time.