Quotes by Breton, Andre

To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would >>

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existen >>

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appe >>

Quotations about Arts and Artists

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invent >>

Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some o >>

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in i >>

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre