The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
SALVADOR DALIThe mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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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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I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
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What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
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Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
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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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Forever will be you and me.
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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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So little of what could happen does happen.
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We are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.
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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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It is either easy or impossible.
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The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.
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Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.
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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 do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I’m never served a cooked telephone.
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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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I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
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Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
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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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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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