Surrealist Quotes - Page 2

• When I think of my art tribe - you know, my peeps - there are certain people who are autobiographers that I really love. But for the most part, overwhelmingly, my tribes are the surrealists and the storytellers, in song and literature.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Art, Thinking

  Fuente: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity, which he was asking his surrealist neophytes to adopt, was new for language but something that composers had been practicing for centuries.

  Virgil Thomson

  Discipline, Lovely, Asking

  Virgil Thomson (1984). “A Virgil Thomson reader”, Plume

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• Conocemos la solución surrealista: irracionalidad concreta, riesgo objetivo. La poesía es la conquista, la única conquista posible, de la 'posición suprema', 'una cierta posición de la mente desde la que la vida y la muerte, lo real y lo imaginario, el pasado y el futuro... dejan de percibirse en sentido contradictorio'.

  Albert Camus

  Real, Past, Life And Death

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.97, Vintage

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• In an age in which the classic words of the Surrealists— 'As beautiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella'—can become reality and perfectly achievable with an atom bomb, so too has there been a surge of interest in biomechanoids

  H. R. Giger

  Beautiful, Reality, Age

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• In the future, we've forgotten it. It's disappointing to find out that the past is the present is the future. Nobody wants that. And yet, that's what it is. Maybe it's a kind of surrealist move, to use language like "post-racial" - thinking that if you create the language for it, it will happen. I wish it worked that way. But that's not our reality.

  Claudia Rankine

  Movimiento, Realidad, Pensamiento

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly

  André Breton

  Gun, Crowds, Walking

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• Me dirijo a un público progresista. Ya sabes, si ven Discovery Channel, History Channel, ese tipo de cosas, los "Monty Python" ya han sentado las bases. Son conocidos en todo el mundo. A la gente le gusta ese tipo de humor surrealista e izquierdista, y eso es lo que yo hago. Y "Saturday Night Live", mucho humor americano. "Los Simpson", sobre todo, el humor raro y de izquierdas, que me encanta. Y sardónico. Así que eso es todo lo que hago. Encuentro ese público, y están en todos los países desarrollados del mundo.

  Eddie Izzard

  Country, Noche, Python

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• Most artists are surrealists

  Dong Kingman

  Artista

  "Twenty-two Famous Painters and Illustrators Tell How They Work". Book by Dong Kingman, 1964.

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• The Surrealist supernatural is a bit predictable but given the choice between supernatural and anything else, I would have no hesitation. Long live supernatural!

  Henri Michaux

  Long, Choices, Given

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• If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned the corner into Rue Mimosas, looking for the house of Rene Magritte. It was August, 1965. I was 33 years old and about to meet the man whose profound and witty surrealist paintings had contradicted my assumptions about photography.

  Duane Michals

  Photography, Witty, Memories

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• Méret Oppenheim era una mujer muy erótica. También le gustaba la provocación, y si eras capaz de provocar a los surrealistas en el Cabaret Voltaire de Zúrich, o en locales dadaístas similares de Basilea, donde normalmente podías salirte con la tuya, eras un auténtico provocador.

  Rebecca Horn

  Get Away, Cabaret, Provoking

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Es muy difícil decir que soy surrealista. Es como decir que soy poético. No es algo de lo que necesariamente quieras ser consciente.

  Michel Gondry

  Want, Poetic, Hard

  "Michel Gondry Pinch Hits For Tokyo!" by Ayako Fujitani and Ryo Kase, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 6, 2009.

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• All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within a closed landscape whose landmarks constantly draw us toward the past. Certain shifting angles, certain receding perspectives, allow us to glimpse original conceptions of space, but this vision remains fragmentary. It must be sought in the magical locales of fairy tales and surrealist writings: castles, endless walls, little forgotten bars, mammoth caverns, casino mirrors.

  Ivan Chtcheglov

  Wall, Moving, Writing

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.5, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.

  J. G. Ballard

  Art, War, Keys

  "Age of unreason". Interview with Jeannette Baxter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2004.

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• The most important quote about poetry and politics that I know is from a different situationist, Guy Debord. He was locked in a debate with the French Surrealists, many of whom by the 40s and 50s were part of the French communist party apparatus. Many Surrealists eventually argued for instrumentalizing art for political ends. Debord countered, "I don't want to put poetry in the service of revolution. I want to put revolution in the service of poetry".

  Joshua Clover

  Art, Guy, Political

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• I believe in the pure Surrealist joy of the man who, forewarned that all others before him have failed, refused to admit defeat, sets off from watever point he chooses, along any other pat save a reasonable one, and arrives wherever he can.

  André Breton

  Believe, Men, Joy

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• To convulse reality from within, to demonstrate it as fractured spacing, became the collective result of all that vast range of techniques to which surrealist photographers resorted and which they understood as producing the characteristics of the sign.

  Rosalind E. Krauss

  Reality, Technique, Photographer

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• Un texto hace que la palabra sea más específica. La define dentro del contexto en el que se utiliza. Si se saca de contexto y se presenta como una especie de objeto, que es lo que... es una idea del arte contemporáneo. Es como una vieja idea surrealista o cubista de sacar algo de contexto y ponerlo en un contexto completamente diferente. Y eso le da un significado diferente y crea otro mundo, otro tipo de mundo en el que entramos.

  Robert Barry

  Arte, Tomado, Ideas

  Fuente: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Siempre leo a los escritores latinoamericanos. Me encantan muchos de ellos: Gabriel García Márquez, José Donoso, Alejo Carpentier, Jorge Luis Borges, Clarice Lispector. También me encantan muchos escritores experimentales estadounidenses y escritores surrealistas europeos. Pero quizá El libro persa de los reyes haya sido mi mayor influencia. Hay un montón de historias increíbles.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Kings, Latin, Book

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Our Onirisme movement was a synthesis between the Romantic Fantastique and Surrealism. Dimov and I rejected automatic writing. We loved surrealist painters: Chirico, Magritte, Tanguy and especially Brauner (also a Romanian), who never respected the laws that Breton imposed in his manifests.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Writing, Law, Movement

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Me sigue encantando la imaginería poética. Me encanta la idea de utilizar el lenguaje surrealista para generar contenido lírico y me encanta la forma en que el inglés puede ser emocionante en sí mismo.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Ideas, Camino, Poética

  "Wilco". Entrevista con Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. 7 de mayo de 2007.

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• We could say that Romanian Onirisme was born from painting and not from surrealist literature. The visual is primordial. Dimov said, 'Dreams are not a source, but a canon, a legislative model.'

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Dream, Literature, Painting

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Not to say that the process assumes anything of "greater" or "lesser" importance, though: it's just more graphic information. Take the surrealists, for example, or a work by Cage. For me, there's a great value in doing this with literature. There's a certain form of dependence; process and product inform each other, depend on each other. I consider myself a writer who doesn't write with a style, almost. I begin with tension, with a vibe, a character.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Character, Writing, Style

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• Siempre me ha gustado leer catálogos de exposiciones y obras de teatro, y he trabajado con un dramaturgo surrealista alemán, Heiner Müller.

  Jenny Hval

  Art, Reading, Play

  Fuente: pitchfork.com

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• Luis Bunuel's two semishort surrealist hand grenades (cowritten in varying degrees with Salvador Dali) make a double bill that can restore your faith in the subversions of youth. Pure Spanish-Parisian piss and vinegar.

  Luis Buñuel

  Hands, Two, Degrees

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