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 More Quotes by Andre Breton More Quotes From Andre Breton 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. Andre Breton dream believe reality Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur. Andre Breton trust awareness character Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale. Andre Breton objects should dream 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. Andre Breton adults mind children A game: say something. Close your eyes and say something. Anything, a number, a name. Like this (she closes her eyes): Two, two what? Two women. What do they look like? Wearing black. Where are they? In a park. . . . And then, what are they doing? Try it, it's so easy, why don't you want to play? You know, that's how I talk to myself when I'm alone, I tell myself all kinds of stories. And not only silly stories: actually, I live this way altogether. Andre Breton eye names silly Words make love with one another. Andre Breton making-love 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 betrayal justice mean Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. Andre Breton nature wise art Beauty is like a train that ceaselessly roars out of the Gare de Lyon and which I know will never leave, which has not left. It consists of jolts and shocks, many of which do not have much importance, but which we know are destined to produce one Shock, which does...The human heart, beautiful as a seismograph...Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all. Andre Breton doe heart beautiful It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and why my first concern is then to know what it looks out on. Andre Breton impossible looks firsts 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 confusion expectations challenges What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real. Andre Breton surrealism fantastic real 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 desperate affair love The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry, where automatic writing, which appeared at the end of the nineteenth century, is a true photography of thought. Since a blind instrument now assured artists of achieving the aim they had set themselves up to that time, they now aspired, not without recklessness, to break with the imitation of appearances. Andre Breton photography artist writing 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. Andre Breton events alive use It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything. Andre Breton symbolic roles ends Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession. Andre Breton wall desire art 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 enlightenment feelings life 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 Andre Breton loving-you fusion secret Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything. Andre Breton reminding-yourself saddest literature
