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The error that is at the root of surrealism is the idea of the infinite richness of the unconscious imagination. The cause of surrealism’s ideological failure was its belief that the unconscious was the finally discovered ultimate force of life, and the fact that the surrealists revised the history of ideas in accordance with that simplistic perspective and never went any further.
Guy Debord, Rapport sur la construction des situations

There was the father we hated, which was Surrealism. And there was the father we loved, which was Dada. We were the children of both.
Michèle Bernstein

It was an exquisite corpse that was beginning to give off a bad smell.
Ralph Rumney, The Consul

Surrealism’s failure was an honorable one.
Raoul Vaneigem, Histoire désinvolte du surréalisme