If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
SALVADOR DALIThe secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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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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The reason some portraits don’t look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
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Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures
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For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
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I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I’m never served a cooked telephone.
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Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?” Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.
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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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We are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.
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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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The problem with the youth of today’ is that one is no longer part of it.
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The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
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I am not strange. I am just not normal.
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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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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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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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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An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
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The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
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Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
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