Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Andre Breton (Manifesto of Surrealism; 1924)
“Complete honesty has nothing to do with "purity" or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart.”
"Partisan Review 'Art Chronicle': 1952" (1952), p. 146
1960s, Art and Culture: Critical Essays, (1961)
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Bk. XV, ch. 1
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“Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.”
Armonía es puro amor, porque el amor es concierto.
Fuenteovejuna (1613), Barrildo, Act I.