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

"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 longer is it a matter of the narrow roads where traditional beauty is offered in its clarity and obviousness to th…"

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

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

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

"In retailing slander, we name the originator, in order to enjoy a pleasure without danger."

"Jealousy is the homage that inferiority pays to merit."

"One seeks new friends only when too well known by old ones."