Andre Breton Quotes

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real - a dream. To visualize is, in fact, to make visual lies. Visual lies, however, have a way of coming true.

If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.

I believe in illusion - I don't believe in magic.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities.

Nothin’s real scary except in books.

If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.

When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.

No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.

"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. "Yeah, that's true," I say. But then after I think about it for a second, I add, "But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all."

We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.

Illusion never changed into something real.

Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?

If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.

imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.

What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination as well as by our senses. Cartoon animation can give fantasy the same reality as those things we can touch and see and hear.

His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life.

Fantasy is only a state of mind that you can employ when existing in a real context.

Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?

I'm not here now. This isn't happening. You're just visiting a dream of mine.

Fantasy and reality often overlap.

if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.

Any mental activity is easy if it need not be subjected to reality.