Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
SALVADOR DALIKnowing how to look is a way of inventing.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.
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It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures
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Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.
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Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
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Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
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Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I’m never served a cooked telephone.
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To be interesting, one has to provoke.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
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I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
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So little of what could happen does happen.
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I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache – it is better for the health.
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The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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The reason some portraits don’t look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
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God is just another artist, like me.
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Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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