Andre Breton Professions : Writer Born : February 19, 1896 Died : September 28, 1966 Browse All Authors Top 95 quotes by Andre Breton We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing. Andre Breton color sky men Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing. Andre Breton brushes process reality Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts on the mind very much as drugs do; like drugs, it creates a certain state of need and can push man to frightful revolts. Andre Breton drug men believe May night continue to fall upon the orchestra Andre Breton orchestra night fall 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. Andre Breton obscure beautiful facts How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise. Andre Breton paradise delight flow 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. Andre Breton phrases sight love 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 oneself secret Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting. Andre Breton modern painting metaphor 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! Andre Breton bored stupid age 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. Andre Breton poor light sun Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose. Andre Breton you-choose greatest-gifts steps To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Andre Breton mean For me, the single word "God" suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque. Andre Breton shady religious god 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. Andre Breton imagination justice mean 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. Andre Breton intellectual two past ...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours. Andre Breton breaths ends Let us not mince words: the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful. Andre Breton marvelous beautiful facts The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up. Andre Breton stars clouds night 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 insubordination expect-nothing violence Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors