Quotes and Sayings about Surrealism

"Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums."
- Salvador Dali
(Related: Museums, Surrealism)

"I think it was more personal, but I certainly tried to adapt certain concepts of Surrealism."
- Trevor Dunn
(Related: Surrealism)

"Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life."
- Brad Holland
(Related: Art, Life)

"Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality."
- John Lennon
(Related: Effect, Insanity, Mind, Reality, Surrealism)

"The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride."
- Vincente Minnelli
(Related: Father, Surrealism)

"But surrealism is present in most of my pictures."
- Vincente Minnelli
(Related: Present, Surrealism)

"Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life."
- Vincente Minnelli
(Related: Life, Surrealism)

"As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism."
- Mark Mothersbaugh
(Related: Style, Surrealism)

"Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois."
- Susan Sontag
(Related: Thought, Surrealism)