Andre Breton
Andre Breton
André Bretonwas a French writer, poet, anarchist and anti-fascist. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifestoof 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism"...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth19 February 1896
CountryFrance
gun hands cynicism
The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
love heart names
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
mean perception awareness
To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.
real reality imaginary
The imaginary is what tends to become real.
alive may path
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.
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The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
dream omnipotence play
Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.
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My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.
dream memories men
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
love-you issues settling
Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.
love inspiring marriage
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
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The man that cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot