Surrealism Quotes

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. Salvador Dali
Vision Our Considers Destroys Destructive Shackles Only Limiting Surrealism
This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism. Salman Rushdie
Business Strange World Live Increasingly Insane Seems Writer New Surrealism Which Realism
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
Three Country Abandoned Andre Adolescent Paris Come Know Him Years Surrealism Surrealist Being Working Pope
The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure. Alejandro Jodorowsky
Political Pure Surrealism End Movement
Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable. Alejandro Jodorowsky
Important Become Subconscious Too Respectable Something Rationalism Had Between Halt Surrealism Intellectual Essential Romantic Ground Bridge Even Gap Necessary Early Started
For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth. Edgar Wright
Comedy Sky Down Drama Back Earth High Minutes Inspired Never Felt Surrealism Quiet Movie Down To Earth Floats Brilliance Watching
The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot. Graham Joyce
Fashion Culture Internet Made Anarchic Television Has-Been Visuals Magazine Poetry Computer Merchandising Mainstream Force Been Surrealism Shoot Transgression Commonplace Much Games Film
The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream. Graham Joyce
Dream Surrealism Interpreted
A few friends and me used to go and watch Bunuel, Carne, Cocteau... Cocteau and Bunuel were surrealism. And I was very excited by that. 'Un Chien Andalou', especially. Harold Pinter
Me Few UN Excited Go Were Surrealism Friends Very Used Watch
I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That's what I've always done. Jeff Koons
Art Feeling Only Make Always Surrealism Artist Done Want The Only Thing Avant-Garde Themselves Pop Pop Art Connection Thing Enjoyed Honest
American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism. John Updike
Work Art Puritan General Takes Metaphors Surreal Surrealism American Behind Little Work Ethic Ethic Use Playful
I love surrealism. Machine Gun Kelly
Love Surrealism
As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism. Mark Mothersbaugh
Style Surrealism As Far As Far Fascinated
The type of work I do, which is often called 'Pop Surrealism,' is very separate from Gagosian and Mary Boone type of gallery art. Molly Crabapple
Work Art Type Mary Surrealism Very Often Which Gallery Pop Separate
Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision. Octavio Paz
World Vision More More And More Poetry Surrealism Even
Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. Susan Sontag
Thought Signs Only Bourgeois Surrealism Universal
I think it was more personal, but I certainly tried to adapt certain concepts of Surrealism. Trevor Dunn
Think Tried More Concepts Surrealism Personal Certain Certainly Adapt
The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride. Vincente Minnelli
Father Way Surrealism Curious Pirate Bride

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