To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.

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.

You don’t read to exercise the mind but to take voyages

We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.

The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community.

I'm very sane about how crazy I am.

The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.

Which Anguish was the utterest--then-- To perish, or to live?

My head has got regrets, but I haven't.

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.

Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!

Some people think it's wrong, being single isn't right. But if you hurt the right person, you'll be wrong all your life.