Surrealist Quotes - Page 1

Most artists are surrealists
Dong Kingman / Film Art Director
Artist
Surrealist
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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
Thomas Pynchon / Novelist
Sentimental
Surrealist
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My son got me into 'The Mighty Boosh.' I just love that surrealist humour.
David Morrissey / Actor
Humour
Surrealist
Mighty
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I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.
Frida Kahlo / Painter
Mexico
Surrealist
Woman Artist
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I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.
Billy Connolly / Comedian
Scottish
Surrealist
Byrne
Dali
John
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Lady Gaga has a lot of energy, and that is fantastic, but she is using old surrealist images.
Alejandro Jodorowsky / Filmmaker
Energy
Fantastic
Gaga
Surrealist
Old
Images
Lady
Lady Gaga
She
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The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly
Andre Breton / Writer
Crowds
Gun
Surrealist
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They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
Frida Kahlo / Painter
Dream
My Own
Portraits
Reality
Surrealist
Painted
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I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
J. G. Ballard / Novelist
Painter
Surrealist
Painters
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The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.
Susan Sontag / Writer
Juxtaposition
Quotations
Surrealist
Taste
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I never thought of myself as a Surrealist. I didn't think of myself as anything. I try not to. We all have these egos.
Leonora Carrington / Artist
Surrealist
Myself Anything Never
Egos
Myself Never Anything
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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.
Michel Gondry / Film Director
Poetic
Surrealist
Want
Hard Something Want
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Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
Frida Kahlo / Painter
Artist
Expression
Painting
Surrealist
Paintings
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Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.
Eugene Ionesco / Playwright
Expression
Indispensable
Needs
Revolution
Spiritual
Surrealist
Revolutions
Vital
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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.
Rene Magritte / Artist
Mean
Mind
Remembrance
Surrealist
Seen
Mind Always Your
Lookout
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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.
Kenneth Koch / Poet
Surrealist
Poetry Me Painting
Influenced
Thousands
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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.
Kenneth Koch / Poet
Surrealist
Brought
French
Magazine
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'The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart).
Manny Farber / Painter
Bogart
Excitement
Hollywood
Honest
Surrealist
Underworld
Unwilling
Private
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The first piece I ever collected was a Roy Lichtenstein: a sculpture called 'Surrealist Head II'. There was a waiting list. I remember Steve Martin wanted one, and I wanted one. I got the 'Surrealist Head', and I was thrilled.
Jeff Koons / Artist
Sculpture
Surrealist
Waiting
Collected
List
Martin
Piece
Roy
Steve
Steve Martin
Thrilled
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Claude Cahun is a fascinating artist - one of the few women to be part of the surrealist movement, she and her partner Suzanne Malherbe took on men's names and made artworks that investigated female identity long before 'The Second Sex' or Cindy Sherman.
Naomi Alderman / Author
Artist
Cindy
Fascinating
Female
Identity
Movement
Sex
Surrealist
Men Women Sex
Women Men Sex
Women Men Long
Few
Few Women
Her
Partner
Second
She
Took
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The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious.
Henry Moore / Sculptor
Romantic
Imagination
Abstract
Conscious
Elements
Good Art
Intellect
Order
Seems
Surprise
Surrealist
Unconscious
Unnecessary
Quite
Classical
Contained
Quarrel
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I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream.
Henry Rollins / Musician
Dream
Annoying
Familiar
Loud
Normal
Sleep
Strange
Surrealist
Tired
Unfamiliar
Life Time Enough
Activities
Spend
Later
Noises
Several
Sounds
Startling
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My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The original was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940, and I commissioned an artist I know, Brigid Marlin, to make a copy from a photograph. I never stop looking at this painting and its mysterious and beautiful women.
J. G. Ballard / Novelist
Beautiful Women
Blitz
Destroyed
Mysterious
Painting
Photograph
Surrealist
Violation
Original
Commissioned
Copy
Dominated
Marlin
Never Stop
Paul
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When I was at school when I was 16, I was in a quandary because I didn't know whether I wanted to join the army - I had this terrible desire to be a tank driver in the Royal Tank Regiment, genuinely - or whether I wanted to go to art college because half of me wanted to be in the army, and the other half of me wanted to be a surrealist.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Army
Royal
Surrealist
Art Me School
Art Me Know
Genuinely
Driver
Join
Regiment
Tank
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