Salvador Dali Quotes

An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
SALVADOR DALI

Arms Elegance Hairs Woman
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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Democracy Habit Publication Society
Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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Desire Gate Guard
Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
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Accomplishment Expenditure Expression Love People Physical Physiology
The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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Capture Fact Invention Photography Reality Secret
Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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Art Painting Place Work
When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
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Sleep World
Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
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Glory Money
Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.
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Creation Freedom One Liner Worse
Do not be afraid of perfection – you will never attain it.
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Afraid Attain Perfection
Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
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Genius Madness
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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Effort Life People Picture Potrait Reason Resemble True
Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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Contradiction Creation Life One Liner
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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Attitude Insane Mad Man Thinking
Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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Avoidance Bother Modern Unfortunately
I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache – it is better for the health.
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Decision Growth Health Mustache Smoke
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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Ambition Bird Inspirational Intelligence One Liner Wings
Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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Invention Look
It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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Laundry Lost Love
I am not strange. I am just not normal.
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Life Normal One Liner Strange
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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Beginning Learning Master Old Paint Respect
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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Die Exception Hurt People War

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