Surrealist Philosophy Quotes

Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was.

Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy.

Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts on the mind very much as drugs do; like drugs, it creates a certain state of need and can push man to frightful revolts.

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.

Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end.

Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins.

Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.