Therefore, I am defining it once and for all: SURREALISM, n. Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express – verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner – the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.
This definition was the motivation to accomplish these “physhic automatism” exercises, although it must be said that not all pictures had this origin and in a greater or lesser extent, the reason intervened.
