Surrealism Quotes

Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.

I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.

Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These are in themselves ideas from an extrahuman world.

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.

This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death.

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

Cine n-ar dori să moară visând că moare?

[On Jason Mashak's “I Was Trained to See Shadows”, in his poetry book SALTY AS A LIP:] A nice bit of smooth, full-bodied, surreal story telling. I like it.

Oh,' said a very white body as it threw a wrist watch to the ground which broke without attracting anyone's attention, 'Oh, how can anyone not love poetry, natural machines, large white houses, the brilliance of steel, crimes and wild passions?

We can sum up the surrealist distinction between 'literature' and 'poetry' by saying where the former is artificial, fictive and elusive, the latter is natural, real, direct and spontaneous.

Ai pus nitroglicerină sub perna lui dumnezeu ...

Just like an apple tree apples and the earth peoples, Alan Watts alans prickly-goos and gooey-prickles.

المادة المظلمة هي السعادة، وتوجد بنسبة ثابتة ومحدودة فالعالم. تتوزع على كل الكائنات ال�%

Oh, sheep. I've lost all my sobbing colours.

Fighting for freedom” is a myth. There’s only freedom in uniting. You’re not really free with an, “Us vs Them” mentality; because you are constantly defending yourself. And in fighting, there’s no time for freedom.

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

Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different means by which to explore reality itself.

The shifting sands of the world... show how much the surrealists were drawn towards an interrogation of what reality actually is. Unlike fabulists of whatever hue, there is a materiality in surrealist writing that resolutely keeps it, one might say, 'down to earth'.

Refusing what Adorno called that 'comfort in the uncomfortable' taken by the fantastic, surrealism seeks to reintegrate man into the universe.

We write the earth we stand upon.