#surrealism

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone. ↗

— Salvador Dalí

#surrealism #surreal

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

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

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life. ↗

— Vincente Minnelli

#great #life #painter #surrealism #then

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

There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life’s meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself - is not earned by work. ↗

— André Breton

#fuck-work #life #nadja #surrealism #work