I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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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So little of what could happen does happen.
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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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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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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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.
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I do not take drugs. I am drugs.
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The problem with the youth of today’ is that one is no longer part of it.
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I am not strange. I am just not normal.
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Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
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When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
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I am the Don Quixote of unreality.
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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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Happy is he who causes a scandal.
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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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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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