This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
SALVADOR DALIForever will be you and me.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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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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The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
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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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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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Life is too short to remain unnoticed.
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
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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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What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
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Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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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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Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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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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When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
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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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The problem with the youth of today’ is that one is no longer part of it.
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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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An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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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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Forever will be you and me.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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