Surrealism Quotes

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconscious. Some things you can't really get your hands on very easily. Things that are kind of nebulous and they feel like they're not completely formed. You have to feel your way through that.

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.

I think it was more personal, but I certainly tried to adapt certain concepts of Surrealism.

The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

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

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.