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

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.

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

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

Words make love with one another.

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.

To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.