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Andre Breton - From the Beauty category:
- Nadja, 1926...
Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all. (Andre Breton)
Andre Breton - From the Beauty category:
Let us not mince words... the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful. (Andre Breton)
Andre Breton - From the Danger category:
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself. (Andre Breton)
Andre Breton - From the Desire category:
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. (Andre Breton)
Andre Breton - From the Dreams category:
Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale. (Andre Breton)
Andre Breton - From the Dreams category:
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. (Andre Breton)
Andre Breton - From the Experience category:
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. (Andre Breton)
Andre Breton - From the Freedom category:
Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history. (Andre Breton)
Andre Breton - From the Future category:
In the world we live in, everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again. (Andre Breton)
Andre Breton - From the Imagination category:
The man that cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot. (Andre Breton)
Andre Breton - From the Imagination category:
To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery - even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness - is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be. (Andre Breton)
Andre Breton - From the Life category:
It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere. (Andre Breton)
Andre Breton - From the Love category:
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable. (Andre Breton)
Andre Breton - From the Memory category:
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. (Andre Breton)
Andre Breton - From the Mirrors category:
The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect. (Andre Breton)
Andre Breton - From the Perception category:
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. (Andre Breton)
Andre Breton - From the Possessions category:
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession. (Andre Breton)
Andre Breton - From the Reality category:
-The White-Haired Revolver, 1932
The imaginary is what tends to become real. (Andre Breton)
Andre Breton - From the Recognition category:
To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize. (Andre Breton)
Andre Breton - From the Rules category:
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist. (Andre Breton)
Andre Breton - From the Searching category:
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. (Andre Breton)
Andre Breton - From the Strategy category:
The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations. (Andre Breton)
Andre Breton - From the Surrealism category:
The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood. (Andre Breton)
Andre Breton - From the Surrealism category:
One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according to rule, and why it still expects nothing save from violence. (Andre Breton)
Andre Breton - From the Travel category:
Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads. (Andre Breton)
Andre Breton - From the Truth category:
I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own. (Andre Breton)
Andre Breton - From the Vision category:
The man who can't visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot. (Andre Breton)
Andre Breton - From the Windows category:
I find it impossible to think of a picture save as a window, and my first concern about a window is to find out what it looks out on... and there is nothing I love so much as something which stretches away from me out of sight. (Andre Breton)
Andre Breton - From the Words category:
Words make love with one another. (Andre Breton)
Andre Breton - From the Worth category:
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. (Andre Breton)
Andre Breton - From the Writing category:
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, / Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. (Andre Breton)
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