I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
SALVADOR DALIDo not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
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I am the Don Quixote of unreality.
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It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.
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Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
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There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
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It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures
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Happy is he who causes a scandal.
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Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
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