Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.
SALVADOR DALIFor me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Great 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.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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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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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
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So little of what could happen does happen.
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It is either easy or impossible.
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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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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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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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God is present in everything.
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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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Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
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The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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I am not strange. I am just not normal.
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To be interesting, one has to provoke.
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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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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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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
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It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures
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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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Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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