When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?
The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly.
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
May night continue to fall upon the orchestra.
The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.
The imaginary is what tends to become real.
I love you on the surface of seas Red like the egg when it is green.
It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.
I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own.
I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys.
There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.
The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.
Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him – which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows.
My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.
The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.
If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.
Dada is a state of mind.
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.