#surrealism

Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject. ↗

— André Breton

#reality #subject #surrealism #surreal

I gazed upon the earth and saw that a body, in its tender faithlessness, had located it in the sky. A splendid scarf of blood, looming above the abyss. ↗

— Joë Bousquet

#sky #surrealism #surreal

Cine n-ar dori să moară visând că moare? ↗

— Saşa Pană

#dream #psychoanalysis #surrealism #death

Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light. ↗

— Jyrki Vainonen

#artists #creativity #surrealism #writers #writing

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#destroys #destructive #limiting #only #our

Several people toss and turn in their sleep, startled by the lines of the newspapers in their dreams, knives out, lights out, lights out, knives out! ↗

— Hans Carl Artmann

#newspapers #sleep #surrealism #dreams

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings. ↗

— Salvador Dalí

#mystery #surrealism #art

Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I simply should recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten. ↗

— André Breton

#surrealism #life

I am the soul in limbo. ↗

— André Breton

#nadja #soul #surrealism #art

As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table. ↗

— Comte de Lautréamont

#beauty