The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
SALVADOR DALIThe first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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Right now I’m the greatest. I don’t say this through vanity. It’s just that the rest are so bad.
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I am not strange. I am just not normal.
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Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
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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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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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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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God is just another artist, like me.
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Happy is he who causes a scandal.
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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 connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.
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For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
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