The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
SALVADOR DALII am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures
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Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.
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God is present in everything.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.
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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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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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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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Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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The problem with the youth of today’ is that one is no longer part of it.
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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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Sometimes I spit on my mother’s portrait for pleasure.
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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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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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