12 Quotes by Andre Breton
- Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
- Words make love with one another.
- What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.
- There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
- Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
- Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
- It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
- If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
- I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
- Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
- Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
- Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
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