‘in search of l’amour fou’: John Richardson, A Life of Picasso, vol. III: The Triumphant Years, 1917–1932, p. 323
‘an ever-changing supply …’: Calvin Tomkins, Duchamp: A Biography, p. 272
‘desastrous’: ibid., p. 273
‘Duchamp married!!!’: ibid., p. 276
‘a charming experience … very nice’: ibid., p. 277
‘I shit on the entire …’: Ruth Brandon, Surreal Lives: The Surrealists 1917–1945, p. 246
‘screaming in terror …’: Mark Polizzotti, Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton (2nd edn), p. 253
‘the sound of a key …’: André Breton, Nadja, p. 136
‘ “You’re being persecuted …” ’: ibid., p. 139
‘all confinements are arbitrary …’: ibid., p. 141
‘the jail … of logic’: ibid., p. 143
‘the unrestorable fragments …’: André Breton, Surrealism and Painting, pp. 24–5
‘a lamp, a bird …’: ibid., p. 26
‘they are participating …’: ibid., p. 33
‘a man with an open umbrella …’: ibid., p. 26
‘Nature rends things asunder …’: ibid.
‘An inexorable rain …’: ibid., p. 25 (‘torrential’ in some translations)
‘Je t’adore à l’égal …’: Dominique Bona, Gala: La Muse redoutable, p. 239
‘Enjoy your freedom’: ibid., p. 241
‘Blonde, sensually beautiful …’: Polizzotti, Revolution of the Mind (2nd edn), p. 256
‘jolts and shocks’: Breton, Nadja, p. 160
‘manifesto on the intrusion of …’: Polizzotti, Revolution of the Mind (2nd edn), p. 259
‘Beauty will be CONVULSIVE …’: Breton, Nadja, p. 160
‘the new Montparnasse’: Jean-Paul Crespelle, La Vie quotidienne à Montparnasse à la grande époque 1905–1930, p. 32
‘Painters and Painting …’: Tomkins, Duchamp, p. 281
‘the very reason why …’: Breton, Surrealism and Painting, p. 36
‘a pitchfork in every star’: ibid., p. 37
‘the same ability to bring …’: ibid., pp. 38–40
‘Victor Hugo was a madman …’: Francis Steegmuller, Cocteau: A Biography, p. 392
‘paintings borrow nothing …’: Jean Cocteau, My Contemporaries, ed. Margaret Crosland, p. 111
‘our age will be called …’: ibid., p. 109
‘L’HYSTÉRIE N’EST PAS UN PHENOMÈNE PATHOLOGIQUE’: La Révolution surréaliste, 15 March 1928, p. 22
‘Endless games …’: Brandon, Surreal Lives, p. 261
‘obtained a success in …’: Nancy Cunard (ed.), Negro, p. 87
‘en groupe’: (‘Im Banden’), Brandon, Surreal Lives, p. 254
‘a poor pastiche …’: Polizzotti, Revolution of the Mind (2nd edn), p. 273
‘All his friends are metamorphosed …’: Patrick Waldberg, Max Ernst, p. 298 (also described in Guiseppe Gatt, Max Ernst, p. 42)
‘ “like” and “like” and “like” …’: Virginia Woolf, The Waves, p. 123
‘Quelle sorte d’éspoir …’: La Révolution surréaliste, 15 December 1929, front page, also p. 65
‘Comment envisagez-vous …’: ibid., p. 65