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Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.

— Eugene Ionesco

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.

— Brad Holland

The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.

— Susan Sontag

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.

— Rene Magritte

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

— Abbie Hoffman

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

— Johan Huizinga

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

— Gloria Steinem

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

— Octavio Paz

Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.

— Bill Viola

✗Opposing Perspectives

Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky