Let us not mince words: the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful. Andre Breton More Quotes by Andre Breton More Quotes From Andre Breton Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.' Andre Breton rely knowing ifs Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history. Andre Breton artistic definitions imagination Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads. Andre Breton mistress wife children In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again. Andre Breton future events humanity 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. Andre Breton stars eye beach 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. Andre Breton insane secret people I myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call, where everything hanging from the the ceiling and on the walls stays where it is as if by magic, where I sleep nights in a glass bed, under glass sheets, where who I am will sooner or later appear etched by a diamond. Andre Breton wall sleep night 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. Andre Breton expression dream long 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. Andre Breton independent real writing Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject. Andre Breton surrealism objects subjects The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect. Andre Breton roles mirrors eye There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state. Andre Breton fairy-stories green adults 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. Andre Breton moral discipline lines Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue. Andre Breton man talent genius said
