Surrealism Quotes

Let my enemies devour each other.

Exit, pursued by a bear.

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

The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.

Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.

I thought that punk in its original state was a revolutionary movement. But like surrealism, it failed in its revolutionary attempt.

Here is a paradox. It would seem that there cannot be surrealism and photography, but only photography or surrealism.

MTV has severely compromised surrealism, perhaps ruined it forever.

THE ACT OF KILLING invents a new form of cinematic surrealism.

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.

I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.

That was in 1957. And there I found out that Germany is a kind of province. I didn't know anything about expressionism, about the Bauhaus and Dada and surrealism. I was uneducated, so to speak - and everybody else was more or less uneducated, too.

Surrealism runs through the streets.

Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.