A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it.

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

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

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.

May night continue to fall upon the orchestra

Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.

The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has contributed not a little to encourage such hypocrisy, has for a long while ceased to merit discussion.