‘There’s a surreal light …’: Robert McNab, Ghost Ships, p. 35
‘Dear Father …’: ibid., p. 53
‘Gala’s left with 400 Fr …’: ibid., p. 54
‘You alone are precious … nothing else’: ibid., p. 59
‘lifestyle modernism’: Roger Nichols, The Harlequin Years: Music in Paris, 1917–1929, p. 146
‘open exploration of …’: Sjeng Scheijen, Diaghilev: A Life, p. 391
‘Bravo, Picasso …’: John Richardson, A Life of Picasso, vol. III: The Triumphant Years, 1917–1932, p. 260
‘Mercure caught me unawares …’: ibid., p. 261
‘Les Soirées de Paris …’: ibid., also André Breton, Dossier Dada, p. 106
‘It is …’: André Breton, Dossier Dada, p. 106
‘assez curieux …’: Richardson, A Life of Picasso, vol. III, p. 261
‘the first of the beach ballets’: Margaret Crosland, Jean Cocteau, p. 69
‘on a beach which …’: ibid.
‘a great arbiter of fashion …’: ibid.
‘silly, slight, and without novelty’: Francis Steegmuller, Cocteau: A Biography, p. 331
‘a blinding nightmare’: ibid., p. 329
‘like a dumb animal’: ibid., p. 330
‘Had I been cut in two …’: ibid.
‘something terrible …’: Richardson, A Life of Picasso, vol. III, p. 253
‘My name is on the plate!’: ibid.
‘everything is a miracle … lump of sugar’: ibid.
‘Gala here …’: McNab, Ghost Ships, p. 83
‘We should have left …’: Dominique Bona, Gala: La Muse redoutable, p. 223
‘Max Ernst travels around …’: McNab, Ghost Ships, p. 123
‘First: Éluard is back …’: ibid., p. 117
‘ineluctably moulded …’: Aragon, Paris Peasant, p. 34
‘Closed on account of … owner’s death’: ibid., p. 41
‘A screw thread behind my forehead …’: ibid., pp. 45–6
‘heads of hair uncoiling …’: ibid., p. 52
‘My palette of blondnesses …’: ibid.
‘Beautiful, good, right …’: ibid., p. 123
‘worried men come there …’: Jane Munro, Silent Partners: Artist and Mannequin from Function to Fetish, p. 209
‘the laws of an arbitrary utility’: Manifesto of Surrealism (1924), in André Breton, Manifestoes of Surrealism, trans. Richard Seaver and Helen R. Lane, p. 4
‘We are still living …’: ibid., p. 9
‘that dark night’: ibid., p. 13
‘Had I lived … enormous metaphors’: ibid., p. 16
‘Paul Éluard … always open’: ibid., p. 17
‘asserts our complete non-conformism’: ibid., p. 47
‘baptized the new mode …’: ibid., p. 24
‘SURREALISM …’: ibid., p. 26
‘psychic mechanisms … problems of life’: ibid.
‘I believe in the future …’: ibid., p. 14
‘secrets of the magical surrealist art’: ibid., p. 29
‘Surrealism will usher you …’: ibid., p. 32
‘ “You are no longer trembling, carcass” …’: ibid., p. 47
‘The Surrealists still see things …’: Gertrude Stein, ‘Picasso’ (1938), in Gertrude Stein, Picasso: The Complete Writings, pp. 79–80
‘Picasso only sees something …’: ibid., p. 80
‘Nous sommes à la veille …’: La Revolution surréaliste, 1 December 1924 (opening page)
‘Le surréalisme … en faire partie’: ibid., p. 25