I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
SALVADOR DALIDrawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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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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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
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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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Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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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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Do not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.
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Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint 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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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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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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Let my enemies devour each other.
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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
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