Andre Breton Quotes


If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.


Citations

Breton, André. Mad Love. Translated by Mary Ann Caws, University of Nebraska Press, 1987.

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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".