“Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.”
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Source: On photography
“It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.”
“People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.”
“Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all”
Source: The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
“We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.”
“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”
Source: Frida Kahlo, 1910-1954: an exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
“In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.”
“THE ACT OF KILLING invents a new form of cinematic surrealism.”
“The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.”
“It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.”
“There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.”
Source: The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí
Source: Bushman Lives!
“Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was.”
“I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.”
“My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision, poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].”