André Breton

"Every time I pass a cloakroom, my mind goes back to the already distant days when I first knew Max Ernst, and the time he told me how sure he was of having once seen the hats and overcoats leave the rack where they were hanging and move away to another rack some distance away, without any apparent human intervention. This event had taken place in Cologne, I believe, and I remember that, in whatever café we were sitting, we made an unsuccessful attempt to reproduce the result. What is far more important, though, than the authenticity of certain phenomena of levitation is that on this occasion Max Ernst testified to the fact that he found it impossible to hang up anything at all in a fixed position, and equally impossible to assume that a figure that he was painting, even supposing that he were to divest himself of it as one divests oneself of one's clothes, would ever remain where he had put it, would not step down from the frame and reassemble the picture as the needs of the drama that we are playing out may demand." 
-"Surrealism and Painting" (Revolution Surréaliste 9-10 (1927))