Andre Breton Quotes

Beauty is only about relationships. Nothing is beautiful on its own.

You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself." "Hang on, can I write this down?" said Arthur, excitedly fumbling in his pocket for a pencil.

But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.

My experience is what I agree to attend to.

There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.

Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and both be right. The difference of our positions will show stars in your window I cannot even imagine. Your sky may burn with light, while mine, at the same moment, spreads beautiful to darkness. Still we must choose how we separately corner the circling universe of our experience. Once chosen, our cornering will determine the message of any star and darkness we encounter.

Each person is the universe from a particular perspective.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

Nothing ever sounds quite the way it does when you're standing right in the middle of it.

The world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with.

The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?

Life's all about perceptions.

Life is but thought.

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

All experience is subjective.

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular.

I want a nonfiction that explores our shifting, unstable, multiform, evanescent experience in and of the world.

One advantage of arguing that causality is aesthetic is that it allows us to consider what we call consciousness alongside what we call things.

I thought of a high school report I did on the Belgian artist Rene Magritte and a quote I once read from him, something about his favorite walk being the one he took around his own bedroom. He said that he never understood the need for people to travel because all the poetry and perspective you're ever going to get you already posses. Anais Nin had the same idea. We see the world as we are. So if it's the same brain we bring with us every time we open our eyes, what's the difference if we're looking at an island cove or a pocket watch?

There is intersubjectivity woven into the very fabric of the Kosmos at all levels.

Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.