Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
SALVADOR DALIThe 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.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Let my enemies devour each other.
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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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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
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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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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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For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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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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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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People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
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My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.
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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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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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Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
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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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Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
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The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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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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The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.
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