Andre Breton Quotes

There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life’s meaning – that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself – is not earned by work.
ANDRE BRETON

Alive Events Use
One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according to rule, and why it still expects nothing save from violence.
ANDRE BRETON

Expect Insubordination Nothing Violence
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.
ANDRE BRETON

Hand Love Memories
Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.
ANDRE BRETON

Choose Gift Greatest Step
I love you on the surface of seas Red like the egg when it is green
ANDRE BRETON

Eggs Love Sea
The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
ANDRE BRETON

Cynicism Gun Hand
The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
ANDRE BRETON

Art Bomb Ribbon
The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.
ANDRE BRETON

Burn Childhood Mind
Words make love with one another.
ANDRE BRETON

Another Love Make
Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real process of thought. Thought’s dictation, free from any control by the reason, independent of any aesthetic or moral preoccupation.
ANDRE BRETON

Independent Real Write
Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.
ANDRE BRETON

Awareness Character Trust

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