Andre Breton Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• 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.

  Andre Breton

  Dream, Memories, Men

  "First Manifesto of Surrealism". Book by Andre Breton, 1924.

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

  Andre Breton

  Dream, Omnipotence, Play

• Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.

  Andre Breton

  Dream, Should, Objects

• I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.

  Andre Breton

  Dream, Believe, Reality

• The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has contributed not a little to encourage such hypocrisy, has for a long while ceased to merit discussion.

  Andre Breton

  Dream, Expression, Long

• 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.

  Andre Breton

  Dream, Reality, Psychics

  "Manifestoes of Surrealism". Book by André Breton, 1969.

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