Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
SALVADOR DALIThe two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali.
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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Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
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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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I do not take drugs. I am drugs.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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Let my enemies devour each other.
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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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For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
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The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
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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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