Top 6 Surrealist Quotes

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

Taste, Juxtaposition, Surrealist

Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.68, Macmillan

I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.

Mexico, Surrealist, Woman Artist

There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.

Sentimental, Surrealist

Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.541, Penguin

The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly

Gun, Crowds, Surrealist

It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of.

Want, Poetic, Surrealist

"Michel Gondry Pinch Hits For Tokyo!" by Ayako Fujitani and Ryo Kase, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 6, 2009.

Most artists are surrealists

Artist, Surrealist

"Twenty-two Famous Painters and Illustrators Tell How They Work". Book by Dong Kingman, 1964.

Surrealist Quotes