Henry Rollins

I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream.

American Musician

Marcel Duchamp

The last hundred years have been retinal; even the cubists were. The surrealists tried to free themselves, and earlier so had the dadaists, but unfortunately, these latter were nihilists and didn't produce enough to prove their point, which, by the way, they didn't have to prove - according to their theory.

French Artist

Henry Moore

The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious.

English Sculptor

Manny Farber

The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart).

American Artist

Kenneth Koch

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.

American Poet

Rene Magritte

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.

Belgian Artist

Frida Kahlo

Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

Mexican Artist

J. G. Ballard

I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.

British Author

Billy Connolly

I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.

Scottish Comedian

David Morrissey

My son got me into 'The Mighty Boosh.' I just love that surrealist humour.

English Actor

Surrealist as a noun usually relates to the cultural movement that started in the 1920s.

Art Movement

A surrealist doesn't only work in visual art; they might write or make films too.

Not Always Art

Surrealists aim to unlock the mind to go beyond realistic depiction in artwork.

Beyond Reality

Described as surrealist, images or scenes might appear bizarre or illogical.

Unusual Imagery

When used as an adjective, 'surrealist' often refers to dream-like or fantastical qualities.

Dream Interpretation

Surrealist works are meant to provoke reactions by embracing the irrational or unexpected.

Emotional Impact

 Guillaume Apollinaire was a well-known fixture. As an art critic, Apollinaire explained the cubist and surrealist movements to the world, and rose to the defense of many young artists in the face of what was often a xenophobic and narrow-minded public.

The poet who painted...

 The series of paintings takes place in a supersaturated, maybe surrealist world, not that far from the one we live in. But in this world,