The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
SALVADOR DALIBegin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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Do not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.
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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
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Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?” Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.
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The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.
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It is either easy or impossible.
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An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
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If I’m going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.
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Let my enemies devour each other.
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I am not strange. I am just not normal.
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You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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