I Am The Soul In Limbo.

The Approval Of The Public Is To Be Avoided Like The Plague. It Is Absolutely Essential To Keep The Public From Entering If One Wishes To Avoid Confusion. I Must Add That The Public Must Be Kept Panting In Expectation At The Gate By A System Of Challenges And Provocations.

Surrealism Does Not Allow Those Who Devote Themselves To It To Forsake It Whenever They Like. There Is Every Reason To Believe That It Acts On The Mind Very Much As Drugs Do; Like Drugs, It Creates A Certain State Of Need And Can Push Man To Frightful Revolts.

Beauty Will Be Convulsive Or Will Not Be At All.

When Will The Arbitrary Be Granted The Place It Deserves In The Formation Of Works And Ideas?

Of All Those Arts In Which The Wise Excel, Nature's Chief Masterpiece Is Writing Well.