The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
SALVADOR DALIKnowing how to look is a way of inventing.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.
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Happy is he who causes a scandal.
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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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It is either easy or impossible.
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Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
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The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
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I do not believe in my death.
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It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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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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The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.
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Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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