Quotes by Andre Breton

Andre Breton

A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it.

Art

Ifs

Running

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

Heart

Love

Names

Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.

Artistic

Definitions

Imagination

At the outset, it is only liking, not understanding, that matters. Gaps in understanding … are not only important, they are perhaps even welcome, like clearings in the woods, the better to allow the heart’s rays to stream out without obstacle. The unlit shadows should remain obscure, which is the very condition of enchantment.

Heart

Poetry

Understanding

At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful.

Beautiful

Opposites

Trials

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Beauty

Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you’re settling.

Dating

Issues

Love You

For me, the single word “God” suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.

God

Religious

Shady

How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.

Delight

Flow

Paradise

I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.

Believe

Dream

Reality

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Beach

Beautiful

Beauty

Believe

Betrayal

Black

Burning

Childhood

Children

Color

Crowds

Danger

Dating

Definitions

Delight

Desire

Desperate

Discipline

Dream

Drug

Eggs

Enlightenment

Events

Expression

Eye

Facts

Fairy Stories

Fall

Fantastic

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Feelings

Firsts

Flow

Future

God

Green

Hands

Heart

Humanity

Identity

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Quotes by Andre Breton

Andre Breton

A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it.

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

Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.

At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you’re settling.

For me, the single word “God” suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.

How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.

I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.

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