#surrealism

I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration. ↗

— Arthur Holitscher

#artists #creativity #surrealism #writers #writing

We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing. ↗

— André Breton

#surrealism #change

Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light. ↗

— Jyrki Vainonen

#artists #creativity #surrealism #writers #writing

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#destroys #destructive #limiting #only #our

He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has no talent for words, neither for paints nor music; his uselessness is tremendously total. ↗

— Curtis Ackie

#alchemy #magic-realism #magical-realism #surrealism #music

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings. ↗

— Salvador Dalí

#mystery #surrealism #art

I am the soul in limbo. ↗

— André Breton

#nadja #soul #surrealism #art

The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has contributed not a little to encourage such hypocrisy, has for a long while ceased to merit discussion. ↗

— André Breton

#reality #surrealism #dreams

The spirit of life was in them: death can do nothing against the dawning light; death is but a cardboard mask soon consumed by fire. Behind the black flag - which is nothing other than an anti-flag - the garden of all possibilities is hidden, opening out infinitely to the sea. ↗

— Bernard Roger

#life #possibilities #surrealism #death

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures. ↗

— Vincente Minnelli

#pictures #present #surrealism