André Breton idézet

„Kívánom, hogy az őrületig szeressenek téged.”

„A szavak szeretkeznek egymással.”

„A humor az a folyamat, amely lehetővé teszi, hogy az ember félresöpörje a valóságot, amikor az túlságosan nyomasztóvá válik.”

„A felhők gyorsan eltűntek, és hagyták pusztulni a csillagokat. Az éjszaka kiszáradt.”

“The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.”

“Words make love with one another.”

“Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.”

“Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.”

“There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life’s meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself - is not earned by work.”

“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.”

“I say that the eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror – even if the water of that mirror offers some interesting peculiarities.... that eye impresses me as no less dead than the eye of a slaughtered steer if it has only the capacity to reflect – what if it reflects the object in one or in many aspects, in repose or in motion, in waking or in dream? The treasure of the eye is elsewhere! Most artists are still for tuning around the hands of the clock.... without having the slightest concern for the spring hidden in the opaque case. The eye-spring.... Arshile Gorky – for me the first painter to whom the secret have been completely revealed.”

“Divine Dali!”

“Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.”

“Tell me whom you haunt and I’ll tell you who you are.”

“The imaginary is what tends to become real.”

“The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.”

“All my life my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.” andre breton”

“Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or not at all.”

“Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I simply should recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.”

“May night continue to fall upon the orchestra”

“The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.”

“… with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.”

“I am the soul in limbo.”

“I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.”

“Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.”

“The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows”

“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”

“There is
By my leaning over the precipice
Of your presence and your absence in hopeless fusion
My finding the secret
Of loving you
Always for the first time”

“The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly”

“Let us not mince words.. the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful.”

“At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful.”

“We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.”

“What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.”