André Breton Quotes

February 19, 1896 – September 28, 1966

André Breton (19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer, poet and theorist of Surrealism.

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"[T]his cancer of the mind which consists of thinking all too sadly that certain things 'are,' while others, which well might be, 'are not.'"

Deuxième Manifeste du Surréalisme (Second Manifesto of Surrealism; 1930)

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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

André Breton
— The last two sentences of the Manifesto
First Manifesto of Surrealism; The Abridged Dictionary of Surrealism, reprinted in Marguerite Bonnet, ed. (1988). Oeuvres complètes, 1:328. Paris: Éditions Gallimard.

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Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

André Breton
— "Chagall – a biography", Jackie Wullschlagger, Knopf, Publisher, New York 2008, text from inside-cover

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Truly the eye was… …made to cast a lineament, a conducting wire between the most heterogeneous things. Such a wire, of maximum ductility, should allow us to understand, in a minimum of time, the relationship which connect, without possible discharge of continuity, innumerable physical and mental structures… …the key (of the mental prison, ed.) lies in a free unlimited pay of analogies… …one can admire today a canvas signed by Gorky , “The liver is the Cock’s Comb”, which should be considered the great open door to the analogy world.

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— Introduction to the exhibition of Gorky’s first show', Julien Levy Gallery’, March 1945; as quoted in “Arshile Gorky, – Goats on the roof”, ed. by Matthew Spender, Ridinghouse, London, 2009, p. 258

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All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

André Breton

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