Salvador Dali Quotes

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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Bad Greatness Rest Vanity
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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Imitate Inspirational Produce
Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
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Artist Painting
It is either easy or impossible.
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Deep Easy Impossible One Liner
I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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Contradiction Man
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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Deep Jealous Success
If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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Paint Painting Understand
My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.
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Art Capable Liberation Practical Rational World
The 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.
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Comparison Man Repeat Rose Woman Young
So little of what could happen does happen.
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Happen Life Little One Liner
There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
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Deep Die Overdose Satisfaction Thinking
I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
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Hide Law Order Perceive Power Understand Want
To be interesting, one has to provoke.
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Interest One Liner Philosophy
I’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.
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Die Forever Genius Live
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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Architecture Art Beauty
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
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Confusion Contradiction Creation Life System
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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Fact Myself Painting Understand
I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
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Emotion Honest Inspirational Painting Profound Try
I am the Don Quixote of unreality.
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Reality
Do not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.
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Artist Help Modern Strive Unfortunate
I do not take drugs. I am drugs.
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Drug One Liner Self Love
Sometimes I spit on my mother’s portrait for pleasure.
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Mother Pleasure Potrait
I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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Brief Finish
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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High Man Mission Need Particular Spiritual
Life is too short to remain unnoticed.
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Celebrity Deep Life Notice One Liner Short
Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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Depend Die Genius Mankind Progress
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
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Corporate Knowledge Painting Religion Science Traditional

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