I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
SALVADOR DALIIf I’m going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
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I’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.
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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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All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
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An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.
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Forever will be you and me.
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I do not take drugs. I am drugs.
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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 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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Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
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I am the Don Quixote of unreality.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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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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So little of what could happen does happen.
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