There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.
André BretonTags: stories surrealism fairytale
Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different means by which to explore reality itself.
Michael RichardsonTags: reality fantasy surrealism realism fantastic fantastique
What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.
André BretonTags: fantasy surrealism fantastic fantastique
Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
André BretonTags: reality surrealism object subject
The imaginary is what tends to become real.
André BretonTags: reality surrealism imaginary imaginattion
The real importance of automatism lay in the fact that it led to a different relation between the artist and the creative act. Where the artist had traditionally been seen as someone who invents a personal world, bringing into being something unique to his own 'genius', the surrealists conceived themselves as explorers and researchers rather than 'artist' in the traditional sense and it was discovery rather than invention that became crucial for them.
Michael RichardsonTags: creativity artist surrealism automatism
We can sum up the surrealist distinction between 'literature' and 'poetry' by saying where the former is artificial, fictive and elusive, the latter is natural, real, direct and spontaneous.
Michael RichardsonTags: poetry literature surrealism
By giving words the latitude she does, (Marianne) Van Hirtum emphasizes their contagious qualities: they become almost like viruses, with which it is necessary to put oneself in harmony by sympathetic magic if one is not to be overwhelmed. ... What is essential is to become one with the sickness, that is, in the context of language as a whole, to enter into contact with words.
Michael RichardsonTags: words poetry language surrealism vanhirtum
Equally, the surrealists consider words as witnesses of life acting in a direct way in human affairs. To use words properly it was necessary to treat them with respect, for they were the intermediaries between oneself and the rest of creation. To abuse them was immediately to set oneself adrift from true being. Words need to be coaxed to reveal a little of their true nature, so as to close the breach that exists between the writer and the universe. The world is not something alien against which man is in conflict. Rather man and cosmos exist in reciprocal motion. We are not cast adrift in an alien or meaningless environment. The universe is intimate with us and, as Breton insisted, it is a cryptogram to be deciphered.
Michael RichardsonTags: words poetry world language surrealism breton
Surrealism also refuses the representation of reality: reality can only be; its existence proves its reality. Fiction thereby becomes impossible or is, by definition, false.
Michael RichardsonTags: reality fiction surrealism representation
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