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.
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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Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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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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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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So little of what could happen does happen.
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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
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Happy is he who causes a scandal.
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I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache – it is better for the health.
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The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali.
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Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
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God is present in everything.
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I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.
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The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.
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What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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I do not believe in my death.
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Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
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Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
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Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
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Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
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