Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
SALVADOR DALIIf I’m going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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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 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 want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
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The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.
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To be interesting, one has to provoke.
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The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali.
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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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Happy is he who causes a scandal.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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Sometimes I spit on my mother’s portrait for pleasure.
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