Right now I’m the greatest. I don’t say this through vanity. It’s just that the rest are so bad.
SALVADOR DALIIf you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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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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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
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To be interesting, one has to provoke.
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I do not believe in my death.
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I’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.
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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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Do not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.
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I am the Don Quixote of unreality.
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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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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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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 do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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