Do not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.
SALVADOR DALIWhen I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
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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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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It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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Since man’s highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.
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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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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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Forever will be you and me.
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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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Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
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God is just another artist, like me.
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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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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 am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
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