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Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all.
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It is at the movies that the only absolutely modern mystery is celebrated.
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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
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Life's greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.
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It is not the fear of madness which will oblige us to leave the flag of imagination furled.
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Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.
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Apollinaire asserted that Chirico's first paintings were done under the influence of kinesthetic disorders (migraines, colic, etc.)
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This cancer of the mind which consists of thinking all too sadly that certain things 'are' while others, which well might be, 'are not'.
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It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and... my first concern is then to know what it looks out on.
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Subjectivity and objectivity commit a series of assaults on each other during a human life out of which the first one suffers the worse beating.
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I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own.
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It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.
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Children set off each day without a worry in the world. Everything is near at hand; the worst material conditions are fine. The woods are white or black, one will never sleep.
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The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.
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Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought.
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The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows
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Beloved imagination, what I most like in you is your unsparing quality. There remains madness, 'the madness that one locks up', as it has aptly been described. That madness or another...
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Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
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At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful.
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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Ogden Nash
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Born:
February 19, 1896
Died:
September 28, 1966
(aged 70)
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