Andre Breton Novelist

Gender: Male
Citizenship: France
Born: Feb 19, 1896
Died: Sep 28, 1966

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".

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

nature

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

love

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

beauty

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

life & love

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

science