To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery -- even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness -- is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.
Source: In Manifestos of Surrealism, 1969.
-- Andre Breton, (Feb 18 1896-1966), French poet, essayist, critic, editor; He was the chief promoter and one of the founders of the Surrealist movement.