Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
SALVADOR DALIRepulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Do not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.
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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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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
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Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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Life is too short to remain unnoticed.
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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 terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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I do not believe in my death.
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The problem with the youth of today’ is that one is no longer part of it.
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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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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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Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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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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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
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It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
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People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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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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We are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.
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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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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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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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I am the Don Quixote of unreality.
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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