Salvador Dali on desire
Salvador Dali103 quotes“Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.”
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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.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali Life is too short to remain unnoticed.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali God is just another artist, like me.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali We are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali 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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Sadness shoots a bullet straight at your heart and love buys you time.
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Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson It’s been a long time since we said goodbye and yet the echoes of it are still ringing in our ears.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt We can always walk with them in the rain instead of just lending an umbrella.
Leon MarshLeon Marsh Flowers only wither to bloom again. So shall you break, only to be whole again.
Fareena AliyaFareena Aliya What do you do when the passion burns out? Start another fire.
Jonny OxJonny Ox To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly, I don’t desire to look like that.
Kate WinsletKate Winslet Our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never cease from willing nor from longing till we have Him in fullness of joy: and then may we no more desire.
Julian of NorwichJulian of Norwich Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
Tara BrachTara Brach There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Misery doesn’t love just any company it desires the kind presence only loneliness feeds but that’s not love at all. – love doesn’t eat it bleeds.
Haley Ann WardHaley Ann Ward God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.
Therese of LisieuxTherese of Lisieux All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.
Hildegard of BingenHildegard of Bingen If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
Simone WeilSimone Weil