Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
SALVADOR DALIThere is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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I do not take drugs. I am drugs.
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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Let my enemies devour each other.
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The problem with the youth of today’ is that one is no longer part of it.
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God is present in everything.
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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 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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Do not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.
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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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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.
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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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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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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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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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Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
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The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
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Do not be afraid of perfection – you will never attain it.
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