Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
SALVADOR DALIGreat 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.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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There comes a moment in every person’s life when they realise they adore me.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
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Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
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When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
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The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
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The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.
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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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Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
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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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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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