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

Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real process of thought. Thought's dictation, free from any control by the reason, independent of any aesthetic or moral preoccupation.

The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows

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

Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.

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

It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and why my first concern is then to know what it looks out on.