Status Updates From Dada and Surrealism

"It is impossible for me to consider a painting in any other way than as a window, and my first concern is to know what it looks out on to." - Andre Breton from Le Surréalisme et la peinture

"What we are celebrating is at once a buffoonery and a requiem mass...The bankruptcy of ideas having destroyed the concept of humanity to it's very innermost strata, the instincts and hereditary backgrounds are now emerging pathologically. Since no art, politics or religious faith seems adequate to dam this torrent, there remain only the blague and bleeding prose." - Hugo Ball