"Boys of harsh discipline, nameless actors, chained and brilliant, from the grand musical that will always occupy the mental theatre, with no hope for change, have always mysteriously evoked for me certain theoretical beings, whom I interpret as key-beaers, possessing clues to situations" (Section 1, pg. 5.)

"[T]he mind chooses to believe that the loved object is a unique being, whereas often social conditions of life can destroy such an illusion" (Section 1, pg. 7.)

"Convulsive beauty will be veiled-erotic, fixed-explosive, magic-circumstantial, or it will not be" (Section 1, pg. 19.)

"Somehow included between the Head reproduced in number 5 of the journal Minotaur, the last work he had finished and whose mold he had promised me, and this face, which had remained in a sketchy state" (pg. 30.) Breton notes that the discovery of the mask helps Giacometti over come some indecision as to how to proceed with the sculpture. He writes, "The finding...