Quotes of: Surrealist Keyword

Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things.

Kenneth Koch

Several people toss and turn in their sleep, startled by the lines of the newspapers in their dreams, knives out, lights out, lights out, knives out!

Contemporary Surrealist Prose

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me o...

J. G. Ballard

The first piece I ever collected was a Roy Lichtenstein: a sculpture called 'Surrealist Head II'. There was a waiting list. I remember Steve Martin wanted one, and I wanted one. I got the 'Surrealist Head', and I was thrilled.

Jeff Koons

The shifting sands of the world... show how much the surrealists were drawn towards an interrogation of what reality actually is. Unlike fabulists of whatever hue, there is a materiality in surrealist writing that resolutely keeps it, one might say, ...

Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

Susan Sontag

Gil: Yes, but you're a surrealist! I'm a normal guy!

Midnight in Paris

My son got me into 'The Mighty Boosh.' I just love that surrealist humour.

David Morrissey

Next I prayed to Allah, whose ears are deaf; then did I beseech his fallen twin, the Devil Hornprick, who sits upon his thorn of fire, gloating upon his constellations and counting his bloody seeds. In Baclava it is said Hornprick once caught a glimp...

Contemporary Surrealist Prose

I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.

Billy Connolly

In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.

Vincente Minnelli

I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.

J. G. Ballard

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.

Kenneth Koch

Lady Gaga has a lot of energy, and that is fantastic, but she is using old surrealist images.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of.

Michel Gondry

And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park.

Christo

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.

Eugene Ionesco

'The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart).

Manny Farber

If asked which words one associated with the Sahara, only the most dedicated surrealist might be expected to offer "whale".

The Sahara: A Cultural History

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.

Rene Magritte

When I was an adolescent, I abandoned my country at 23 years to come to Paris to know Andre Breton, the 'Pope of Surrealism.' And for three years, I was there working with him being a surrealist.

Alejandro Jodorowsky