Andre Breton
Andre Breton
André Bretonwas a French writer, poet, anarchist and anti-fascist. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifestoof 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism"...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth19 February 1896
CountryFrance
making-love
Words make love with one another.
photography writing blow
The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry, where automatic writing, which appeared at the end of the nineteenth century, is a true photography of thought. Since a blind instrument now assured artists of achieving the aim they had set themselves up to that time, they now aspired, not without recklessness, to break with the imitation of appearances.
loving-you secret firsts
There is By my leaning over the precipice Of your presence and your absence in hopeless fusion My finding the secret Of loving you Always for the first time
looks firsts impossible
It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and why my first concern is then to know what it looks out on.
betrayal mean justice
To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.
example vain appeals
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
imagination definitions artistic
Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.
paradise flow tides
How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.
fairy-stories green adults
There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.
flirting making-love finished
Words have finished flirting. Now they are making love.
mirrors black firsts
It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.
horse men imagination
The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.
surrealism subjects surround
Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.