Surrealism, described in quotes of the Surrealist artists - free resource of French art history

Surrealism, described and explained in quotes of the famous Surrealist artists: André Breton, Dali, Jean Arp, Miro, Duchamp and others - free resource for students, pupils and teachers in French art history

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Surrealism was at first a French art movement; it started mid 1920’s. Founder and artistic leader was André Breton who wrote poetry and novels. Famous visual surrealist artists were Hans / Jean Arp, Joan Miro, Dali, Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, Magritte, Philippe Soupault - most of them were French. Their quotes on Surrealism are selected here in the PDF. Moreover you will find quotes of later artists who continued early Surrealism… Most of the here quoted artists you can also find on Wikiquote, under their own name too!
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Some selected artist-quotes on French Surrealism - as a short introduction of their extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’Surrealism is the ‘invisible ray’ which will one day enable us to win out over our opponents… .This summer the roses are blue; the wood is of glass. The earth, draped in its verdant cloak, makes as little impression upon me as a ghost. It is living and ceasing to live which are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.’ - Breton’s quote: last sentence of his ‘First Surrealist Manifesto’, Paris, France, 1924

• ’- One might think that through ecstasy we would have access to a world as far from reality as that of the dream. – The repugnant can become desirable, affection cruelty, the ugly beautiful, faults qualities, qualities black miseries.’ - artist quote of Salvador Dali, in: ‘Mon amie et la plage’ (My girlfriend and the beach), Dali 1927

• ’What is a forest? A marvelous insect. A drawing-board, what do forests do? They never go to bed early. They are waiting for the tailor. What is the high season of the forests? It is the future… .Man and the nightingales were in the most favourable situation for imagining: for them the forest was a perfect dream-conductor… - artist quote of Max Ernst, in ‘The mysteries of the forest’ (1934)
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  selection links for more free art-resources on French Surrealism:

• for more selected artist-quotes on Surrealism, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Surrealism

• for art-images of Surrealism, on Wikicommons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Surrealist_artists
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  editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]