The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
SALVADOR DALINothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
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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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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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All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
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Forever will be you and me.
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So little of what could happen does happen.
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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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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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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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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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I’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.
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