André Breton Quote

The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.


Second Manifesto of Surrealism (1930)


The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid...

The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid...

The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid...

The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid...