I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
SALVADOR DALIRight now I’m the greatest. I don’t say this through vanity. It’s just that the rest are so bad.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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Let my enemies devour each other.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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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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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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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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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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Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
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The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
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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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The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
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So little of what could happen does happen.
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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
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Life is too short to remain unnoticed.
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