Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.

The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd.

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

Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.

...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.

The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has contributed not a little to encourage such hypocrisy, has for a long while ceased to merit discussion.

We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.