Salvador Dali Quote

"Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision."

- Salvador dali

This is an interesting quote to me because it pertains to that Dada element of modern art that is contrary to tradition, but more so because as much as Dali was inventive and groundbreaking with his vision, his methods were purely academic. He was a supporter of realism, and as crazy has his compositions were, they were still painted and drawn using classical methods in a realist style. Conceptual art much more destroys the shackles of limiting vision than surrealism did, and a lot of great conceptual art like the Dada movement, abstract expressionism, and the idea of sculpting light has art; happened before and during Dali's heyday.