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
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The imaginary is what tends to become real.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.
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Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
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Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, infamous, sullying, and grotesque is contained for me in this single word: God
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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
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The man that cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot