I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys.

I love you on the surface of seas Red like the egg when it is green

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

Dada is a state of mind.

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.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

I believe in the pure Surrealist joy of the man who, forewarned that all others before him have failed, refused to admit defeat, sets off from watever point he chooses, along any other pat save a reasonable one, and arrives wherever he can.