The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
SALVADOR DALIKnowing how to look is a way of inventing.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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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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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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I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I’m never served a cooked telephone.
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Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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The problem with the youth of today’ is that one is no longer part of it.
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The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
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Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.
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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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Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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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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