Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.
SALVADOR DALIHave no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
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Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
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There comes a moment in every person’s life when they realise they adore me.
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I am the Don Quixote of unreality.
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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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Happy is he who causes a scandal.
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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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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
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For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
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Let my enemies devour each other.
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I’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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I am not strange. I am just not normal.
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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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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache – it is better for the health.
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God is just another artist, like me.
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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
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Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
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To be interesting, one has to provoke.
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I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.
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I do not take drugs. I am drugs.
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Since man’s highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.
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