The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
SALVADOR DALIDo not be afraid of perfection – you will never attain it.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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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 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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Do not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
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Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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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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There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
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We are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.
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Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
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I am not strange. I am just not normal.
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