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.
SALVADOR DALIThe reason some portraits don’t look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
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I am the Don Quixote of unreality.
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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
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The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
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Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
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I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
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Do not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.
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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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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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There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
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