The man that cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot. Andre Breton French Poet More Andre Breton Quotes 1
To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery -even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness -is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be. Andre Breton French Poet More Andre Breton Quotes 0
Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, infamous, sullying, and grotesque is contained for me in this single word: God. Andre Breton French Poet More Andre Breton Quotes 0
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. Andre Breton French Poet More Andre Breton Quotes 0
Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads. Andre Breton French Poet More Andre Breton Quotes 0
To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God! Andre Breton French Poet More Andre Breton Quotes 0
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. Andre Breton French Poet More Andre Breton Quotes 0
In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again. Andre Breton French Poet More Andre Breton Quotes 0
The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations. Andre Breton French Poet More Andre Breton Quotes 0