"The theorist should not let us forget the poet."

"No longer is it a matter of the narrow roads where traditional beauty is offered in its clarity and obviousness to th…"

"Our problem now is to determine whether the Ethiopian attitude that we discovered was the very essence of our whole w…"

"Surrealism lives! And it is young, ardent, and revolutionary. In 1943 surrealism surely remains, as always, an activi…"

"Such is surrealist activity, a total activity: the only one capable of liberating humankind by revealing the unconsci…"

"No important figure in the history of surrealism has been so overshadowed by a spouse as Suzanne Césaire, wife of poe…"

"surrealists had questioned technology, "progress," and the dominant Euro-American attitude toward nature long before …"

"Men are so unjust that to be unhappy is to be wrong."

"A great name without merit is like an epitaph on a coffin."

"Would you know how to give? Put yourself in the place of him who receives."