I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
SALVADOR DALIWhat is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
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I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I’m never served a cooked telephone.
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It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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God is just another artist, like me.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
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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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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
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I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.
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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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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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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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