I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
SALVADOR DALII’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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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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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 mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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God is present in everything.
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It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
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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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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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Do not be afraid of perfection – you will never attain it.
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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
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Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.
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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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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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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 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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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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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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There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
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Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
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I am not strange. I am just not normal.
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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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