#surreal

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#beauty #become #change #continues #historical

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#militants #only #signs #surrealism #thought

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#juxtaposition #quotations #surrealist #taste

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism. ↗

— Mark Mothersbaugh

#far #fascinated #i #style #surrealism

I told her it was a bigger than life musical, that all the actors were going to be about the same age, late twenties into thirties. It would be a style; a kind of surreal high school. ↗

— Randal Kleiser

#age #bigger #going #her #high

I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#beards #children #dada #funny #funny-quotes

I love like an albino. But I don’t want to get sunburned, so would you please pass the ketchup? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#albino #funny #humor #love #surrealism

A man who is in the habit of smiling in the glass at his handsome face and stalwart figure, if you shew him their radiograph, will have, face to face with that rosary of bones, labelled as being the image of himself, the same suspicion of error as the visitor to an art gallery who, on coming to the portrait of a girl, reads in his catalogue: “Dromedary resting. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#art

He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has no talent for words, neither for paints nor music; his uselessness is tremendously total. ↗

— Curtis Ackie

#alchemy #magic-realism #magical-realism #surrealism #music

Dream nonsense: Character: Hey, how are you? Me: I’m tired. I mean, this is a dream, so I must be, right? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#surreal #change