Do not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.
SALVADOR DALIAnything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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Since man’s highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.
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I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I’m never served a cooked telephone.
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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.
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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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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 reason some portraits don’t look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
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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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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
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The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
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I do not take drugs. I am drugs.
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So little of what could happen does happen.
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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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The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
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The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.
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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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Right now I’m the greatest. I don’t say this through vanity. It’s just that the rest are so bad.
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Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
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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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It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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To be interesting, one has to provoke.
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