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.
Andre BretonWhen will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?
Andre BretonSurrealism 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.
Andre Breton