Surrealist Statements

The Surrealists were a group of 20th-century artists who sought to liberate art from the constraints of reason and logic.

Or, in other words, they made weird stuff.

We have:

The only true reality is the one we invent.

Quotes:

Art is a lie, a deception, a fallacy. It is a deception of emotions, a fallacy of reason.

— René Magritte

The purpose of art is to comfort the artist in his own lifetime.

— Salvador Dalí

The eye is a strange and wondrous thing.

— Max Ernst

The world is a book, and those who do not travel know how its chapters are but the same.

— André Breton

The only true thing is to have no thing.

— André Breton

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