The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.

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

Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express - verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner - the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.

Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dreams, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principle problems of life.

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

The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.

The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.