Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.
André Breton Quotes
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
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| Birth: | 19th February, 1896 |
| Death: | 28th September, 1966 |
| Nationality: | French |
| Profession: | Poet, Writer |
About
André Breton was a French writer and poet. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism". He studied medicine and psychiatry. In a publication The Magnetic Fields, a collaboration with Soupault, he implemented the principle of automatic writing. He was editor of the magazine La Révolution surréaliste from 1924.
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