“ The more I look at most of the art movements, it's all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians. ”
- Alan Moore- Copy
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“ If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames. ”
- Antonin Artaud- Copy
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“ To be a surrealist... means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been. ”
- Rene Magritte- Copy
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“ I categorically refused to consider the Surrealists as just another literary and artistic group. I believed they were capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the "practical, rational world." I was going to become the Nietzsche of the irrational… ”
- Salvador Dali- Copy
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“ It seems to me that it is a very simple error which the surrealists are guilty of; they are trying to establish an Absolute. They are trying with all the powers of consciousness to usher in the glory of the Unconscious. They believe in the Devil but not in God… ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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“ MTV has severely compromised surrealism, perhaps ruined it forever. ”
- Donald Barthelme- Copy
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“ Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. ”
- Salvador Dali- Copy
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“ The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random. ”
- Andre Breton- Copy
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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 which quickens the inevitable end. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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“ Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason. ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality. ”
- John Lennon- Copy
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