Surrealism according to Starck

An extract from the book “Impression d’Ailleurs” Editions de L’Aube by Philippe Starck with Gilles Vanderpooten

“The legacy of surrealism is interesting: the possibility making reality absurd was very liberating and fertile. The tension, the explosion, the spark from this telescoping is brilliant. We can find it in the example of quartz when pressed to obtain electricity. If you rub two stones together that are completely contradictory, a third element will spring from it.