For me, surrealism is in my blood; it's not an effort.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

My cartoon strips in college strived to have the Schulzian mix of surrealism and Charlie Brown angst. A bit of that combo shows up in 'Up.'

- Bob Peterson

The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.

- Graham Joyce

I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconscious. Some things you can't really get your hands on very easily. Things that are kind of nebulous and they feel like they're not completely formed. You have to feel your way through that.

- Gotye

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.

- Mark Mothersbaugh

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

- Octavio Paz

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

- Salvador Dali

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

- Salvador Dali

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

- Susan Sontag