So little of what could happen does happen.
SALVADOR DALIThe reason some portraits don’t look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
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What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
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You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
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I’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.
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The problem with the youth of today’ is that one is no longer part of it.
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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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Do not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.
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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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Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.
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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
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Let my enemies devour each other.
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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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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
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I do not believe in my death.
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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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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures
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