| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 54661 |
| QUOTATION: | Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Susan Sontag (b. 1933), U.S. essayist. “Melancholy Objects,” On Photography (1977).
For Sontag, “surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares.” |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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