For me, the single word "God" suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.

The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us.

It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.

The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.

In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.

Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real process of thought. Thought's dictation, free from any control by the reason, independent of any aesthetic or moral preoccupation.

If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.