Andre Breton Quotes - Page 4

• Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins.

  André Breton

  Memories, Love You, Hands

  "First Manifesto of Surrealism". Book by Andre Breton, 1924.

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• It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.

  André Breton

  Light, Sun, Poor

  Andre Breton, Mark Polizzotti (1997). “Anthology of Black Humor”, p.347, City Lights Books

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• Uno puede entender por qué el Surrealismo no tuvo miedo de hacer para sí mismo un principio de revuelta total, de insubordinación completa, de sabotaje según las reglas, y por qué todavía no espera nada que no sea la violencia.

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  Violence, Expect Nothing, Insubordination

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• The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human fanaticism. It doubtless satisfies my only legitimate aspiration. Among all the many misfortunes to which we are heir, it is only fair to admit that we are allowed the greatest degree of freedom of thought. It is up to us not to misuse it. 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.

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  Mean, Justice, Imagination

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• In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.

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  Future, Humanity, Events

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• How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.

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  Delight, Paradise, Flow

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• 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.

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  People, Secret, Insane

  "First Manifesto of Surrealism". Book by Andre Breton, 1924.

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• It is the whole modern concept of love which should be re-examined, such as is commonly but transparently expressed in phrases like 'love at first sight' and 'honeymoon'. All this shoddy terminology is on top of that tainted with the most reactionary irony.

  André Breton

  Love, Sight, Phrases

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• The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has contributed not a little to encourage such hypocrisy, has for a long while ceased to merit discussion.

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  Dream, Expression, Long

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• Hay cuentos de hadas para adultos. Cuentos que aún están en estado verde.

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  Fairy Stories, Adults, Green

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• Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real process of thought. Thought's dictation, free from any control by the reason, independent of any aesthetic or moral preoccupation.

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  Real, Independent, Writing

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• If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.

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  Discipline, Lines, Moral

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• El surrealismo te llevará a la muerte, que es una sociedad secreta. Te enguantará la mano, enterrando en ella la M profunda con la que empieza la palabra Memoria. No te olvides de preparar tu testamento: personalmente, pido que me lleven al cementerio en un camión de mudanzas. Que mis amigos destruyan hasta el último ejemplar de la impresión del Discurso sobre el Modicum de la Realidad.

  André Breton

  Memories, Moving, Love You

  "First Manifesto of Surrealism". Book by Andre Breton, 1924.

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• The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us.

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  Beautiful, Facts, Obscure

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• Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world of today.

  André Breton

  Past, Two, Intellectual

  Andre Breton, Mark Polizzotti (1997). “Anthology of Black Humor”, p.113, City Lights Books

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• Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

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  Painting, Metaphor, Modern

  "Chagall: A Biography". Book by Jackie Wullschlagger, 2008.

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• It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!

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  Stupid, Bored, Age

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• What’s the good of these great fragile fits of enthusiasm, these jaded jumps of joys? We know nothing anymore, but the dead stars; we gaze at their faces; and we gasp with pleasure. Our mouths are dry as the lost beaches, and our eyes turn aimlessly and without hope. Now all that remain are these cafés where we meet to drink these cool drinks, these diluted spirits, and the tables are stickier than the pavements where our shadows of the day before have fallen.

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  Beach, Stars, Eye

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• Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.'

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  Knowing, Rely, Ifs

  "Nadja". Book by André Breton, 1928.

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