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....

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

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....

Refusing what Adorno called that 'comfort in the uncomfortable' taken by the fantastic, surrealism seeks....

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

By giving words the latitude she does, (Marianne) Van Hirtum emphasizes their contagious qualities: they....

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