The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
SALVADOR DALIRepulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.
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Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.
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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
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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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All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
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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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It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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I do not believe in my death.
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Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
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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 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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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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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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