(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the emotions of childhood.

— André Breton

Tell me whom you haunt and I’ll tell you who you are.

— André Breton

The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.

— André Breton

The imaginary is what tends to become real.

— André Breton

The important thing is that man is lost in time, at the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost at the moment that follows

— André Breton

The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has contributed not a little to encourage such hypocrisy, has for a long while ceased to merit discussion.

— André Breton

The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.

— André Breton

The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.

— André Breton

The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) CROS’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us.

— André Breton

There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.

— André Breton