Trevor Dunn Quotes

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.

I love surrealism.

Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

For me, surrealism is in my blood; it's not an effort.

For me, Warhol made so much sense.

I don't really consider myself an impressionist.

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.

The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

My first influence obviously was Picasso.

When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards. But it's inconceivable to me that I could experience things and not have them enter into my painting.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist.

Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.

My name is Schwitters, Kurt Schwitters... I'm a painter and I nail my pictures... I'd like to be accepted into the Dada Club

I feel like I swallowed a Magritte. Like on the inside, I'm made of clouds and floating eyes, green apples, and slowly rising men in bowler hats.

Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was.

Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins.

Surrealism could not be made up. It was the very electricity of the real.

The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.

I certainly struggled when I was little and didn't have an easy time, so I try to put that stuff in my work.

How much the work of an artist owes to an art movement to which he belongs can never be determined exactly, if only because the movement derives its character from the individual creations of its members.