Surrealist Quotes

It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of.

Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.

I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.