Dada is a state of mind.

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.

Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.

The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.

The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.

It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.

Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.

Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.

We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.

One second she’s all timid, and then reeoowr! Hellcat.

It seems like everyone around me has recreation going on. I'm the only one working, I guess.

Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? That is long ago. We are old folk.

The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.

At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

I think if Jesus came for the first time, and he was 33 1/2 years old and hung out with these guys, where would he be? They'd probably be at a coffee bar getting a latte or something.

Listen to your own voice. Don't listen to someone else's. To me the way to live is to always move forward - to keep searching for whatever it is that interests you.

It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.

I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.