I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man...is above all the plaything of his memory.

Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.

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.

Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express - verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner - the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.

How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.

Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts on the mind very much as drugs do; like drugs, it creates a certain state of need and can push man to frightful revolts.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.