This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
SALVADOR DALIThe mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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I am not strange. I am just not normal.
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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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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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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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God is just another artist, like me.
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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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Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
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There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.
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God is present in everything.
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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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I am the Don Quixote of unreality.
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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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