I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
SALVADOR DALIPeople love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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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 two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali.
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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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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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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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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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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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Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
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When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
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Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.
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There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
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