Andre Breton Quotes


It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.


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".