The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
SALVADOR DALIThis grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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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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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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Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
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The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.
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An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
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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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The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
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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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Sometimes I spit on my mother’s portrait for pleasure.
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Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
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Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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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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There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
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