Weyes Blood

Absurdity is my favorite brand of humor because deep down inside, in our subconscious, it's all surrealism. It's all abstract. The world is the surrealism, the absurdity, the humor - it all just overlaps.

American Musician

Salvador Dali

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

Spanish Artist

Susan Sontag

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.

American Author

John Lennon

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

English Musician

Jessica Stroup

I was raised by boys. I can hold my own, I can fight, and I love horror movies - simply for the scare factor and the surrealism.

American Actress

Brad Holland

Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.

American Artist

Salman Rushdie

Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.

Indian Novelist

Octavio Paz

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

Mexican Poet

Vincente Minnelli

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.

American Director

Mark Mothersbaugh

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.

Surrealism began as an artistic movement, so it's often related to creativity and the unexpected.

Artistic Origin

Surrealism involves combining things that don't usually go together to provoke thought.

Unexpected Combinations

Surrealism draws heavily on dreams, involving illogical scenes with a dreamlike atmosphere.

Dream Influence

Use 'surrealism' to describe bizarre experiences that challenge your perception of reality.

Unreal Experience

Surrealism captures the intensity of experiences that seem beyond the ordinary.

Intensity of Experience

Surrealism in an experience can express how personal perceptions drastically differ from reality.

Subjective Perception

 I'm also convinced that, in an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self. The phrase 'Art is whatever' expresses the current inclusiveness that surrounds art-making -- a sort of 'it ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it' notion.

Milton Glaser: How great...

 On the other, the forms of artistic expression made possible through surrealism, cubism, and new inventions, like the cinema and the phonograph. Within that divide, through the creation of his most important contribution to poetry, the calligram,