André Breton citáty

„"Chcete, nechcete", říkám každé ženě a pokračuji: "Nejsme přece děti, abychom si hráli, jak rytíř dobývá princeznu."“

—  André Breton

„Láska bez koncepce, to je vlastně antikoncepce.“

—  André Breton

Varianta: Láska bez koncepce - to je vlastně antikoncepce.

„Sebeláska - to znamená nutit duši jásat nad sebou samým a ruce aby tleskaly nad vypískanou komedií svého já.“

—  André Breton

„Jen povrchní láska je romantická, velká je tragická.“

—  André Breton

„Opravdová láska se snadno obejde bez parametrů milostné techniky.“

—  André Breton

„Nedobrovolná samota je opuštěnost.“

—  André Breton

„První dech lásky je posledním dechem rozumu.“

—  André Breton

„Chci, aby lidé mlčeli, když přestanou cítit.“

—  André Breton

Zdroj: [Pijoan, José, Dějiny umění 10, Knižní klub, 2000, 80-242-0218-2, 28, česky]

„To, co milujeme, nás neukolébává, ale burcuje.“

—  André Breton

„Láska ženy proměňuje tělo ženy z kůže a tuku v hedvábí.“

—  André Breton

„Vracíme-li se k sobě, doporučuje se použít sjízdných cest.“

—  André Breton

„Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.“

—  André Breton

Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Andre Breton (Manifesto of Surrealism; 1924)
Kontext: After you have settled yourself in a place as favorable as possible to the concentration of your mind upon itself, have writing materials brought to you. Put yourself in as passive, or receptive, a state of mind as you can. Forget about your genius, your talents, and the talents of everyone else. Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that lead to everything. Write quickly, without any preconceived subject, fast enough so that you will not remember what you're writing and be tempted to reread what you have written. The first sentence will come spontaneously, so compelling is the truth that with every passing second there is a sentence unknown to our consciousness which is only crying out to be heard.

„The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.“

—  André Breton

„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.“

—  André Breton, kniha Manifestoes of Surrealism

Zdroj: Manifestoes of Surrealism

„My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.“

—  André Breton

Zdroj: What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings

„Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.“

—  André Breton, kniha Anthology of Black Humor

Zdroj: Anthology of Black Humor

„Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.“

—  André Breton, kniha Anthology of Black Humor

Zdroj: Anthology of Black Humor

„Tell me whom you haunt and I’ll tell you who you are.“

—  André Breton

„The imaginary is what tends to become real.“

—  André Breton