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The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.
Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag
Born: Jan 16, 1933
Died: Dec 28, 2004

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Surrealist, Taste, Quotations, Juxtaposition

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The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. Susan Sontag
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My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The original was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940, and I commissioned an artist I know, Brigid Marlin, to make a copy from a photograph. I never stop looking at this painting and its mysterious and beautiful women. J. G. Ballard
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When I was an adolescent, I abandoned my country at 23 years to come to Paris to know Andre Breton, the 'Pope of Surrealism.' And for three years, I was there working with him being a surrealist. Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Lady Gaga has a lot of energy, and that is fantastic, but she is using old surrealist images. Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs. Eugene Ionesco
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The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious. Henry Moore
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Claude Cahun is a fascinating artist - one of the few women to be part of the surrealist movement, she and her partner Suzanne Malherbe took on men's names and made artworks that investigated female identity long before 'The Second Sex' or Cindy Sherman. Naomi Alderman
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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
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My son got me into 'The Mighty Boosh.' I just love that surrealist humour. David Morrissey
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