Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.

At the outset, it is only liking, not understanding, that matters. Gaps in understanding ... are not only important, they are perhaps even welcome, like clearings in the woods, the better to allow the heart's rays to stream out without obstacle. The unlit shadows should remain obscure, which is the very condition of enchantment.

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.

Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.

There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life’s meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself - is not earned by work.

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