Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
SALVADOR DALIWars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
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My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.
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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
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The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.
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God is just another artist, like me.
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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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Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
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Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.
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I do not believe in my death.
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God is present in everything.
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It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures
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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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Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
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Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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Life is too short to remain unnoticed.
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I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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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 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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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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I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
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