Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
SALVADOR DALIGive me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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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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Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
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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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Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
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The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint 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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Let my enemies devour each other.
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