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“To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.”

Mind Mean Remembrance Surreal Surrealism Surrealist

Author:Rene Magritte

“The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd.”

Hands Streets Crowds Simplest Triggers Firing Pistols Surrealist Dashing

Author:Andre Breton

“I tried sex once with a woman and that woman was Gala. It was overrated. I tried sex once with a man and that man was the famous juggler Federico Garcia Lorca [the Spanish Surrealist poet]. It was very painful.”

Men Sex Poet Painful Overrated Surrealist Jugglers Lorca

Author:Salvador Dali

“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”

Vision Photography Destructive Surreal Surrealism Shackles Surrealist

Author:Salvador Dali

“I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.”

Mexico Surrealist Woman Artist

Author:Frida Kahlo

“Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.”

Knows Artist Painting Expression Surrealist

Book:Frida Kahlo: 'I Paint My Reality'

Source: Frida Kahlo: 'I Paint My Reality'

“All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within a closed landscape whose landmarks constantly draw us toward the past. Certain shifting angles, certain receding perspectives, allow us to glimpse original conceptions of space, but this vision remains fragmentary. It must be sought in the magical locales of fairy tales and surrealist writings: castles, endless walls, little forgotten bars, mammoth caverns, casino mirrors.”

Source: Situationism: A Compendium

“We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists imagined a monkey wrench and the surrealists a crystal cup. That's lost. We know how to read every promise in faces-the latest stage of morphology. The poetry of the billboards lasted twenty years. We are bored in the city, we really have to strain to still discover mysteries on the sidewalk billboards, the latest state of humor and poetry.”

“If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned the corner into Rue Mimosas, looking for the house of Rene Magritte. It was August, 1965. I was 33 years old and about to meet the man whose profound and witty surrealist paintings had contradicted my assumptions about photography.”

Ifs Men Feels Years Stills I Can House Memories He Man Painting Photography Profound Witty Corners Surrender Excitement Assumption Indulge August Knots Surrealist Rue Magritte Mimosas

Author:Duane Michals

“In an age in which the classic words of the Surrealists— 'As beautiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella'—can become reality and perfectly achievable with an atom bomb, so too has there been a surge of interest in biomechanoids”

Reality Age Beautiful Interest Machines Tables Meetings Classic Bombs Unexpected Atoms Umbrella Sewing Atom Bomb Surrealist Dissecting

Author:H. R. Giger

“We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'”

Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

“I was both charmed and moved by Midday with Buuel, Mexican filmmaker and writer Claudio Isaac's personal and very poetic recollection of his friendship with his mentor, the Spanish surrealist Luis Buuel.”

Moved Filmmaker Poetic Mentor Mexican Recollection Isaac Charmed Surrealist

Author:C. M. Mayo

“The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the surrealist preferences which rule photographic taste.”

Kind Produce Taste Cameras Cruelty Experts Preference Surrealist Lenient

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.”

World Wells Art War Whole Modern Childhood Movement Strange Painting Keys Offers Threat Nuclear Abstract Ambiguity Nuclear War Abstract Art Shanghai Surrealist Cubism Dislocation

Author:J. G. Ballard

“The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.”

Taste Quotations Juxtaposition Surrealist

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of.”

Want Hard Poetic Surrealist

Author:Michel Gondry

“The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart).”

Men Bigs Sleep Honest He Man Hollywood Excitement Unwilling Underworld Surrealist Bogart Big Sleep

Book:Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America

Source: Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America

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