André Breton

"We should destroy laboratories because laboratories are giving us a false idea of men and of their existence"

— André Breton (1896-1966)

“Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.”

— André Breton (1896-1966)

“Words make love with one another.”

— André Breton (1896-1966)

“The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.”

— André Breton (1896-1966)

“Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.”

— André Breton (1896-1966)

"Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought."

— André Breton (1896-1966)

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

— André Breton (1896-1966)

"Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing."

— André Breton (1896-1966)

"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."

— André Breton (1896-1966)

"There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself."

— André Breton (1896-1966)