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I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.

Salvador Dali

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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Bad Greatness Rest Vanity
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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Effort Life People Picture Potrait Reason Resemble True
Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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Art Painting Place Work
I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.
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Consist Earth Freedom Need Sweet Work
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
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Confusion Contradiction Creation Life System
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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Ambition Bird Inspirational Intelligence One Liner Wings
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
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Corporate Knowledge Painting Religion Science Traditional
Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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Desire Gate Guard
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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Brillance Difference False Jewelry Memories Real True
Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?” Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.
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Dare Mustache Scare Touch
Do not be afraid of perfection – you will never attain it.
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Afraid Attain Perfection
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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Beginning Learning Master Old Paint Respect
If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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Paint Painting Understand
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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Imitate Inspirational Produce
If I’m going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!
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Art Average Life Need Remember
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.
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Awake Experience Morning Pleasure Supreme Wake Up

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