If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
SALVADOR DALIPainting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I’m never served a cooked telephone.
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What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
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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 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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Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
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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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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
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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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Forever will be you and me.
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I’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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I am the Don Quixote of unreality.
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It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures
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All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
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