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Surrealist Quotes

Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things. Kenneth Koch
Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. Anais Nin
A perceptive French critic has argued that in an age of deepening illiteracy, when even the educated have only a smattering of classical or theological knowledge, erudition is of itself a kind of fantasy, a surrealistic construct. George Steiner
Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe. Ursula K. Le Guin
Thomas Pynchon quote: "There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist."
There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist. Thomas Pynchon
Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I... Anais Nin
Andre Breton quote: "The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a..."
The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly Andre Breton
Frida Kahlo quote: "They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted..."
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality. Frida Kahlo
Vincente Minnelli quote: "In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first..."
In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine. Vincente Minnelli
Michel Gondry quote: "It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm..."
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. Michel Gondry
Billy Connolly quote: "I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John..."
I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist. Billy Connolly
To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been. Rene Magritte
Christo quote: "And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City..."
And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park. Christo
Susan Sontag quote: "The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of..."
The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. Susan Sontag
I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not. Kenneth Koch

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