Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
SALVADOR DALIRepulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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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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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.
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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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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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I am not strange. I am just not normal.
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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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Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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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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The problem with the youth of today’ is that one is no longer part of it.
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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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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 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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