Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Rene Crevel

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French writer Rene Crevel.
Last updated on October 8, 2024.
Rene Crevel

René Crevel was a French writer involved with the surrealist movement.

Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, suffered or enjoyed themselves.
Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and split the peaceful fruits with their corners.
Symbols need not limit their scope to this pendulum swing of images. — © Rene Crevel
Symbols need not limit their scope to this pendulum swing of images.
No daring is fatal. The whole logic of the universe is contained in daring, in creating from the flimsiest, slenderest support.
The song of the curved line is called happiness.
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