God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
SALVADOR DALIThis grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
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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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Life is too short to remain unnoticed.
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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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Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
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So little of what could happen does happen.
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
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My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.
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Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
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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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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
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Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
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