The reason some portraits don’t look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
SALVADOR DALIKnowing how to look is a way of inventing.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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There comes a moment in every person’s life when they realise they adore me.
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All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
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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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We are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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I am not strange. I am just not normal.
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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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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It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
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Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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