Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.
Surrealism runs through the streets.
Exit, pursued by a bear.
As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.
When I write my novels, I'm not writing them to make political points. I'm writing them because I passionately love monsters and the weird and horror stories and strange situations and surrealism, and what I want to do is communicate that. But, because I come at this with a political perspective, the world that I'm creating is embedded with many of the concerns that I have. But I never let them get in the way of the monsters.
The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.
Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy.
Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
Surrealism could not be made up. It was the very electricity of the real.
Let my enemies devour each other.
Three men riding on a bicycle which has only one wheel, I guess that's surrealism.
It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.
MTV has severely compromised surrealism, perhaps ruined it forever.
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.
Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.
That was in 1957. And there I found out that Germany is a kind of province. I didn't know anything about expressionism, about the Bauhaus and Dada and surrealism. I was uneducated, so to speak - and everybody else was more or less uneducated, too.
I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That's what I've always done.
