If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
About Andre Breton
Andre Robert Bretonwas a French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifestoof 1924, in which he defined surrealism as “pure psychic automatism”.
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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.
French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism (1896-1966)
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.
French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism (1896-1966)
Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism (1896-1966)
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism (1896-1966)
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism (1896-1966)
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature’s chief masterpiece is writing well.
French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism (1896-1966)
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism (1896-1966)
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism (1896-1966)
Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism (1896-1966)
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism (1896-1966)
It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism (1896-1966)
No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism (1896-1966)
Words make love with one another.
French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism (1896-1966)
Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism (1896-1966)
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism (1896-1966)
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism (1896-1966)