"Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision."
Shackles quotes
19 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision."
"Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go."
"I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go."
"Freedom is an elusive concept. Some men hold themselves prisoner even when they have the power to do as they please and go where they choose, while others are free in their hearts, even as shackles restrain them."
"Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power."
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