Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
SALVADOR DALII do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I’m never served a cooked telephone.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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Happy is he who causes a scandal.
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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
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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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My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.
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I am not strange. I am just not normal.
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I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
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I am the Don Quixote of unreality.
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We are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.
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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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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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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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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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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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When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
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You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
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The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali.
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I’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.
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It is either easy or impossible.
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Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
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It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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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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To be interesting, one has to provoke.
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.
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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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Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
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