"Surrealists wanted to discard the comfortable certainties of representational work while avoiding the retreat into mysticism that total abstraction threatened"

"Surrealism is a proselytising cult; it exists only because of a constant influx of young artists with a specific inclination for doing surrealist art."

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André Breton

"In physics as in painting, Surrealism denies the possibility of a description which does not carry explicitly the stamp of the observer"

Marie-Antoinette Tonnelat

Surrealism was less about anti-art, and more about creating an art from the unconscious.