Quotes by : Michael Richardson

The shifting sands of the world... show how much the surrealists were drawn towards an interrogation....

As Peret asserts, the value of such stories resides in the fact that they respond to direct social necessity....

The fantastic is in complicity with the realist model, in the claims that realism makes to represent....

A stubborn refusal of the conditions of 20th Century 'reality', surrealism has denied intransigently....

Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend....

In our modern world, this elemental quality of storytelling is denied. We live today in a world in which....

Surrealism also refuses the representation of reality: reality can only be; its existence proves its....

The real importance of automatism lay in the fact that it led to a different relation between the artist....

In this stillness that is at the same time movement, in this darkness that is at the same time light,....

We can sum up the surrealist distinction between 'literature' and 'poetry' by saying where the former....