Andre Breton Quotes


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


Citations

Breton, André, and Philippe Soupault. The Magnetic Fields. Translated by David Gascoyne, Atlas Press, 1985.

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Andre Breton
Andre Breton
  • Born: February 18, 1896
  • Died: September 28, 1966
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Writer

André Robert Breton was a French writer and poet. He is known best as the co-founder, leader, principal theorist and chief apologist of surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du surréalisme) of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism".