1) WE HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH LITERATURE OR ARTS. BUT WE ARE QUITE CAPABLE, IF NEED TO BE, OF MAKING USE OF IT LIKE EVERYONE ELSE.
2) SURREALISM IS NOT A NEW MEANS OF EXPRESSION, NOT A SIMPLER ONE, NOR EVEN A METAPHYSIC Of POETRY. IT IS A MEANS OF TOTAL LIBERATION OF THE MIND AND OF EVERYTHING THAT'S RESEMBLING IT.
3) WE ARE DETERMINED TO CREATE A REVOLUTION.
4) WE HAVE BRACKETED THE WORD SURREALISM WITH THE WORD REVOLUTION SOLELY TO SHOW THE DISINTERESTED, DETACHED AND EVEN QUITE DESPERATE CHARACTER OF THIS REVOLUTION.
5) WE LAY NO CLAIM TO CHANGING ANYTHING IN MEN'S ERRORS BUT WE INTEND TO SHOW THEM THE FRAGILITY IF THEIR THOUGHTS, AND ON WHAT SHIFTING FOUNDATIONS, WHAT HOLLOW GROUND THEY BUILT THEIR SHAKING HOUSES.
6) WE HURL THIS FORMAL WARNING INTO THE FACE OF SOCIETY: WHATEVER PROTECTION IF AFFORDS ITS DISPARITIES, EACH OF THE FALSE MOVES OF ITS SPIRIT, WE SHALL NOT MISS OUR AIM...
7) WE ARE SPECIALISTS IN REVOLT. THERE IS NO MEANS OF ACTION WE ARE NOT CAPABLE OF USING IF THE NEED ARISES... SURREALISM IS NOT A POETIC FORM.
IT IS A CRY OF THE MIND BACK ON ITSELF AND DETERMINED IN DESPERATION TO CRUSH ITS FETTERS. AND, IF NEED BE, BY MATERIAL HAMMERS.
AT IT'S EACH TURN THE SOCIETY WILL FIND US WAITING.
Declaration of January 27, 1925