Surrealism

Surrealism, launched by André Breton in 1924, sought to unleash the unconscious mind and merge dream and reality.

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"Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you."

Haruki Murakami· b. 1949View quote →

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"Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one."

"I start off on the canvas and, little by little, it imposes its own solution. But that solution is not easy to find."

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🇨🇱Alejandro Jodorowsky

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Surrealism

b. 1929

"That is the marvel of true art, that no one has yet found a way to commercialize it."

"The 2nd of April at 9:45 a.m. Max Ernst had his first contact with the sensible world, when he came out of the egg which his mother had laid in an eagle's nest and which the bird had brooded for seven years."

"The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself."

"There was nothing left between me and the void. I must have spent several minutes lying on my stomach with my eyes closed to resist its almost invincible attraction."

"ye!the godless are the dull and the dull are the damned"

"Only an atheist can be a good Christian."

"The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And finally the black ovoid form is the symbol of fire, lava and destruction."

"All the movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds."

"We exist on several different planes, and when we said nothing had any reason we were referring to the psychological and social plane."

"As time passes I become more and more afraid of my growing love of music. I don’t understand myself. I play solo sonatas by Bach: next to them, what is Böcklin? It makes me smile."

"I'd never trust anyone who hadn't spent at least one night of his youth in the local jail. The more hell you raise as a teen-ager, the sweeter your memories will be."

"In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival."

"The Enigma of Henry Moore" by Brian McAvera. Sculpture Magazine, July/August 2001: Vol. 20, No. 6."

"One starts by seeing the person who poses, but little by little all the possible sculptures of him intervene... The more real a real vision of him disappears, the stranger his head becomes."

"Selected works of Stéphane Mallarmé in French"

"Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down."

"In the current struggle I see the antiquated forces of fascism on one side, and on the other, those of the people, whose immense creative resources will give Spain a drive that will amaze the world."

"Art" is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers…what we call art is a game."

"The zoo animal in a cage exhibits all these abnormalities that we know so well from our human companions. Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo."

"The flourishing of bursts of energy dies beyond us."

"When I originally started writing, I expected that probably very few people would read my poetry because in those days people didn’t read poetry much anyway."

"In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself."

"I wanted with all my heart to paint the drama of my country but by thoroughly expressing the Negro spirit, the beauty of the art of the blacks."

"Beloved imagination, what I most like in you is your unsparing quality. There remains madness, 'the madness that one locks up', as it has aptly been described. That madness or another.."

"Life is the farce we are all forced to endure."

"Caleb Crain, "Frank O'Hara's 'Fired' Self," American Literary History, 1997"

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"For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a "Reserved" sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact that I was sure I'd never see her again."

— Haruki Murakami, b. 1949View →

"Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one."

— Haruki Murakami, b. 1949View →

"People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love."

— Haruki Murakami, b. 1949View →

"Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows — maybe even tomorrow."

— Haruki Murakami, b. 1949View →

"Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time."

— Haruki Murakami, b. 1949View →

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