The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
SALVADOR DALIPainting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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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 don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache – it is better for the health.
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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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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 the Don Quixote of unreality.
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.
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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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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 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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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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