#surrealism

Somewhere there are gardens where peacocks sing like nightingales, somewhere there are caravans of separated lovers traveling to meet each other; there are ruby fires on distant mountains, and blue comets that come in spring like sapphires in the black sky. If this is not so, meet me in the shameful yard, and we will plant a gallows tree, and swing like sad pendulums, never once touching. ↗

— K.J. Bishop

#weird #surreal

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

— Mark Mothersbaugh

#far #fascinated #i #style #surrealism

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

An immense body, encircling my delirium, a body made of wind and sunlight, crouching and stretching, encompassed the existence of the slightest human echo. ↗

— Joë Bousquet

#echo #surrealism #surreal

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real. ↗

— André Breton

#fantastique #fantasy #surrealism #surreal

Now the night's breath responds to the sea, which I can scarcely hear from here, as it reminisces about its shipwrecks. ↗

— Joë Bousquet

#sea #surrealism #surreal

The imaginary is what tends to become real. ↗

— André Breton

#imaginattion #reality #surrealism #surreal

The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up. ↗

— André Breton

#stars #surrealism #surreal

May night continue to fall upon the orchestra ↗

— André Breton

#orchestra #surrealism #surreal

Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different means by which to explore reality itself. ↗

— Michael Richardson

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