Surrealism ... wills itself to be a philosophy, but a "philosophy of life," a way of living and thinking, a madness of living and thinking which, refusing the world as it is--since the "real" is often only habit--proposes both to "transform the world" (Marx) and to "change life" (Rimbaud), in a political and poetical rebellion.
JAQUELINE CHÉNIEUX-GENDRON, Surrealism
Surrealism negates everything implied by the divisions and prohibitions on which the majority cultural structure is founded: negating ready-made "orders," denying the pertinence of codes (social, but also stylistic, linguistic, and even logical). Surrealists therefore suspect everything that organizes the sense of things, the direction of things, in space and time, especially any kind of taxonomy and any presentation of evidence that has signification for us.
JAQUELINE CHÉNIEUX-GENDRON, Surrealism
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