6 quotes
Children set off each day without a worry in the world. Everything is near at hand; the worst material conditions are fine. The woods are white or black, one will never sleep.
Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Andre Breton (1924)
It is not the fear of madness which will oblige us to leave the flag of imagination furled.
Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Andre Breton (1924)
Apollinaire asserted that Chirico's first paintings were done under the influence of kinesthetic disorders (migraines, colic, etc.)
Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Andre Breton (1924)
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.
Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Andre Breton (1924)
Beloved imagination, what I most like in you is your unsparing quality. There remains madness, 'the madness that one locks up', as it has aptly been described. That madness or another..
Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Andre Breton (1924)
A story is told according to which Saint-Pol-Roux, in times gone by, used to have a notice posted on the door of his manor house in Camaret, every evening before he went to sleep, which read: ‘THE POET IS WORKING’.
Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Andre Breton (1924)