“Nós combatemos sob todas as formas, a indiferença poética, a distração artística, a pesquisa erudita, a especulação pura, e não queremos ter nada em comum com os economizadores de espírito.” ArtSpiritPoetrySurrealism Book:Manifestoes of Surrealism Source: Manifestoes of Surrealism
“[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’ve forgotten.” FateMemoryPessimismSurrealism Book:Nadja Source: Nadja
“The confidences of the mad, I could pass my whole life inspiring them. They are a scrupulously honest tribe, whose innocence has no peer but my own.” MadnessSurrealism Book:Manifestoes of Surrealism Source: Manifestoes of Surrealism
“We are in front of a fountain, whose jet she seems to be watching. 'Those are your thoughts and mine. Look where they all start from, how high they reach, and then how it's still prettier when they fall back. And then they dissolve immediately, driven back up with the same strength, then there's that broken spurt again, that fall ... and so on indefinitely.” ThoughtSurrealism Book:Nadja Source: Nadja
“Let us not mince words: The marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beauitful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful” SurrealismAndré Breton Author:André Breton