For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
SALVADOR DALIDon’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Happy is he who causes a scandal.
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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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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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So little of what could happen does happen.
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Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.
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Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
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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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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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God is present in everything.
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Let my enemies devour each other.
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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
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Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.
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Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
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Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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Do not be afraid of perfection – you will never attain it.
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My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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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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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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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.
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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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