I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I’m never served a cooked telephone.
SALVADOR DALIThe desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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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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Do not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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I’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.
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My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.
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We are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.
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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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Life is too short to remain unnoticed.
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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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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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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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Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.
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Happy is he who causes a scandal.
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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