Quotes from Andre Breton

Chère imagination, ce que j'aime surtout en toi, c'est que tu ne pardonnes pas.

Engrave this Quote Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner -- the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.

Mais il s'agissait de pouvoir recommencer à aimer, non plus seulement de continuer à vivre !

Indépendamment de ce qui arrive, n'arrive pas, c'est l'attente qui est magnifique.

Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express ? verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner ? the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.

Today, no one is scandalized; society has found ways to nullify the provocative potential of a work of art, adopting before it an attitude of consumerist pleasure.

Hacía mucho tiempo que yo había dejado de entenderme con Nadja. Lo cierto es que quizás nunca nos hemos entendido, al menos acerca de la manera deafrontar las cosas sencillas de la existencia.

We are the prisoners of the mechanical orgy pursued inside the earth, for we have dug mines, underground galleries through which we sneak in a band beneath the cities that we want to blow up.

the blackboard which was to serve for demonstrations was represented by a very elegant young priest who I suppose celebrated the law of falling bodies as a mass is celebrated.

Todo aquello que siento la tentación de comenzar, que requiere un sostenido esfuerzo, hace que me sienta demasiado seguro de que no estoy a la altura de la vida tal como yo la amo y se me ofrece: la vida hasta perder el aliento.

La vie est lente et l'homme ne sait guère la jouer.

Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principal problems of life.

I myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call; where everything hanging from the ceiling and on the walls stays where it is as if by magic, where I sleep nights in a glass bed, under glass sheets, where who I am will sooner or later appear etched by a diamond.

Who are you?" And she, without a moment's hesitation. "I am the soul in limbo.

Imaginação querida, o que sobretudo amo em ti é não perdoares.

A beleza será convulsiva ou não será nada.

Ich glaube an die künftige Auflösung dieser scheinbar so gegensätzlichen Zustände von Traum und Wirklichkeit in einer Art absoluter Realität, wenn man so sagen kann: Surrealität. Nach ihrer Eroberung strebe ich, sicher, sie nicht zu erreichen, zu unbekümmert jedoch um meinen Tod, um nicht zumindest die Freuden eines solchen Besitzes abzuwägen.

I strive in relation to other men, to discover the nature, if not the necessity, of my difference from them. Is it not precisely to the degree I become conscious of this difference that I shall recognize what I alone have been put on this earth to do, what unique message I alone may bear, so that I alone can answer for its fate.

La maison de mon coeur est prête Et ne s'ouvre qu'à l'avenir. Puisqu'il n'est rien que je regrette, Mon bel époux, tu peux venir.

Ce qui j'ai connu de plus beau c'est le vertige.

Ce que j'ai connu de plus beau c'est le vertige.

I salute Antonin Artaud for his passionate, heroic negation of everything which causes us to be dead while alive.

Hugo est surréaliste quand il n'est pas bête.

J'ai vu ses yeux de fougère s'ouvrir le matin sur un monde où les battements d'ailes de l'espoir immense se distinguent à peine des autres bruits qui sont ceux de la terreur et, sur ce monde, je n'avais vu encore que des yeux se fermer.