Quotes by : Michael Richardson

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

Equally, the surrealists consider words as witnesses of life acting in a direct way in human affairs.....

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

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,....

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....