How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo (Leonardo Da Vinci) had written at the bottom of the canvas, `The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover`? This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don`t want this to happen to 2001.
- Stanley KubrickMarriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I`d pay.
- Esther WilliamsMy freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one`s self of the chains that shackle the spirit.
- Igor Stravinsky