I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
SALVADOR DALIIf you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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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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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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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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Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?” Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.
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For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
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Do not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.
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I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache – it is better for the health.
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I am the Don Quixote of unreality.
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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
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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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Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
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I do not take drugs. I am drugs.
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My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.
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