Surrealism Quotes - Page 2

The imaginary is what tends to become real.

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.

Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.

Surrealism also refuses the representation of reality: reality can only be; its existence proves its reality. Fiction thereby becomes impossible or is, by definition, false.

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.

The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

A constant human error: to believe in an end to one's fantasies. Our daydreams are the measure of our unreachable truth. The secret of all things lies in the emptiness of the formula that guard them.

Several people toss and turn in their sleep, startled by the lines of the newspapers in their dreams, knives out, lights out, lights out, knives out!

I had a dream about you painting the scene of a house fire. The clocks were melting and Salvador Dali was riding around in a clown car muttering something about irony.

I am the soul in limbo.

I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play.