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Surrealism ... is the forbidden flame of the proletariat embracing the insurrectional dawn—enabling us to rediscover at last the... - MORE Surrealism ... is the forbidden flame of the proletariat embracing the insurrectional dawn—enabling us to rediscover at last the revolutionary moment: the radiance of the workers' councils as a life profoundly adored by those we love.

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Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, t... - MORE Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real process of thought. Thought's dictation, free from any control by the reason, independent of any aesthetic or moral preoccupation.

André Breton

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If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accept... - MORE If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.

André Breton

Picasso, Pablo

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There is a tendency to discuss surrealism and cubism as if one proceeds out of the other, but in fact there is no similarity. Cubi... - MORE There is a tendency to discuss surrealism and cubism as if one proceeds out of the other, but in fact there is no similarity. Cubism was a way of painting that a group of painters imposed on themselves, surrealism a philosophy of life put forward by a band of poets. The first was essentially a method of breaking up the object and putting it together again according to concepts of pictorial structure, a phase of the greatest importance in the development of such painters as Picasso, Braque, Marcoussis, and Gris, but affecting literature only through Apollinaire, and life hardly at all. The second was the attempt of a highly organized group to change life altogether, to make a new kind of man.

Cyril Connolly

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Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus whic... - MORE Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end.

Henry Miller

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

Susan Sontag

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The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocatio... - MORE The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the image for its own sake and for the element of unpredictable perturbation and of metamorphosis which it introduces into the domain of representation; for each image on each occasion forces you to revise the entire Universe.

Louis Aragon

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The boredom of Sunday afternoon, which drove de Quincey to drink laudanum, also gave birth to surrealism: hours propitious for mak... - MORE The boredom of Sunday afternoon, which drove de Quincey to drink laudanum, also gave birth to surrealism: hours propitious for making bombs.

Cyril Connolly

Sundays

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Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism someth... - MORE Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

Salvador Dali

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Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation.... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal ... - MORE Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation.... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial pact, poetry is the basic text, the foundation of the human order. Surrealism is revolutionary because it is a return to the beginning of all beginnings.

Octavio Paz

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