the object and the viewer.

it is by distinctly paranoiac process that it has been possible to obtain a double image. in other words, a representation of an object that is also, without the slightest pictorial or anatomical modification, the representation of another entirely different object - this one being wholly devoid of any deformation or abnormally disclosing some adjustment.

the rotting donkey

surrealism is not a new or easier means of expression, nor is it a metaphysical of poetry; it is a means toward the total liberation of the mind and of everything that resembles it ... we have no intention of changing men's habits, but we have hopes of proving to them how fragile their thoughts are, and on what unstable foundations, over what cellars they have erected their unsteady houses.

surrealist declaration of 27 january 1925