Do not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.
SALVADOR DALIAn elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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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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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
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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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God is present in everything.
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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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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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I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
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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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Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
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Forever will be you and me.
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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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We are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.
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Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.
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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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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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I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
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Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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It is either easy or impossible.
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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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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.
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