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.
SALVADOR DALIAnything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
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What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
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The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.
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God is present in everything.
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Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
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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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You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
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Since man’s highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.
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Right now I’m the greatest. I don’t say this through vanity. It’s just that the rest are so bad.
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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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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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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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There comes a moment in every person’s life when they realise they adore me.
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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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