Andre Breton Quotes

“This is the most beautiful night of all, the lightning filled night: day, compared to it, is night.”
― André Breton

“The double eyelid of the sun rises and falls on life. The birds' feet on the windowpane of the sky are what I used to call stars. The earth itself, whose motion seems so inexplicable as long as one remains beneath the vault, the earth that is webfooted with deserts is itself subject to the laws of migration”
― André Breton

“There’s only one woman left in the absence of thought that characterizes in pure black this cursed era.”
― André Breton, Earthlight

“The act of love and the act of poetry
Are not compatible
With the reading aloud of a newspaper”
― André Breton

“For me taking part in the decay of present-day man is an entertaining task and the only one that interests me.”
― Tristan Tzara

“I have said three words too many, too bad, I take them back, I add them. I have several times deserved death, especially in Greece, where I sawed up the palette of an old man who stalked my lady friends right up to my camp bed. I messed up the hairdo of the greatest criminal in Chaldea. For all that I did not have to make use of my daughter native to the lower part of her father's vision, all the plains as far as the eye can see which eat hampers full of mother of pearl.”
― Paul Éluard

“Wollt ihr, ja oder nein, alles aufs Spiel setzen, einzig und allein um der Freude willen, tief unten am Grun­de des Schmelztiegels, in den wir unsere armselige bürgerliche Bequemlich­keit, den Rest unseres guten Rufs, unsere Zweifel, das radikale Bewusstsein unserer Ohnmacht, die Albernheiten unserer angeblichen Pflichten, kunterbunt mitsamt den feinen, zarten, zerbrechlichen Gläsern werfen wollen, jenes Licht aufleuchten zu sehen, das nie mehr verlöschen wird ?”
― André Breton