Andre Breton Quotes

I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain.

Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain.

Life has to have the plenitude of art.

I need art around me always.

All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache.

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of great art, and being in the presence of death or disaster, and hearing the human voice lifted in song.

...it was the arts, those noble expressions of the human spirit that are communicated through literature, dance, song, film, drama, painting and sculpture, among the many other such creative means, that helped articulate the sufferings of [these] people that were heard around the globe.

Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either cogent demonstration or sophistry. For it strikes him with two terrible weapons, Intuition and Beauty, and at the single root in him of all his energies... Art and Poetry awaken the dreams of man, and his longings, and reveal to him some of the abysses he has in himself.

any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.

The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself. I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

the arts are life accelerated and concentrated.

I think most people who decide to become a musician have to be prepared for some degree of struggle. It makes the art better if you go through some struggles. To be an artist, in any form, you have to develop some sense of compassion and empathy - it's an important quality for everyone to have, on a human level. But I think, as part of our job, you have to be able to do that, so suffering, tends - if you allow it - to let you look on the bright side. It will help with those senses.

Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.

I believe what Wondaland is doing is creating depth.

We will always need to be reminded that we are human. Art gives us that.

Makeup is an art form for me. It's a form of expression, and it's such a cool way to get my creative juices flowing.

When I see a beautiful piece of art, it inspires me to be creative.

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

A good poem is a contribution to reality.