Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

Surrealism 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.

It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.

How I loathe the servitude people try to hold up to me as being so valuable. I pity the man who is condemned to it, who cannot generally escape it, but it is not the burden of his labor that disposes me in his favor, it is - it can only be - the vigor of his protest against it.

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

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.

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.