Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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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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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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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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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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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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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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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I do not take drugs. I am drugs.
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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
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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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God is just another artist, like me.
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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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God is present in everything.
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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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There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
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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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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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Happy is he who causes a scandal.
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So little of what could happen does happen.
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Life is too short to remain unnoticed.
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Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
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For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
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