5 Quotes & Sayings By Andre Breton

Andre Breton (August 29, 1876 – June 23, 1966) was a French surrealist writer and founder of Surrealism. He was associated with the Dada movement and founded the surrealist group “Group of Automatic Writers” .

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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory. Andre Breton
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All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. Andre Breton
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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession. Andre Breton
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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions. Andre Breton