The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.

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

I am the soul in limbo.

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.

Dada is a state of mind.

The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.