Andre Breton Quotes

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

We yearn for the beautiful, the unknown, and the mysterious.

Magic is not about having a puzzle to solve. It's about creating a moment of awe and astonishment. And that can be a beautiful thing.

I think magic is very related to happiness. So it is not there all the time, but there are beautiful moments of magic in everyone's life.

The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.

Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.

It's still magic even if you know how it's done.

There's a lot of magic in science, so to speak.

Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.

It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.

There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.

So how come it looks so beautiful? How come the moon falls from the sky?

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

And the greatest praise to India is this: not only are her people beautiful; not only are her daily life and cult beautiful; but, in the midst of the utilitarian, humanitarian, dogmatic world of the present day, she keeps on proclaiming the outstanding value of Beauty for the sake of Beauty, through her very conception of Godhead, of religion and of life.

The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords.

A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty. And man needs spiritual expression and nourishing. It's why even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. Man needs music, literature, and painting-all those oases of perfection that make up art-to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.

I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness; and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.

The world is full of wonders that cannot be measured. That is why they are wonders.