There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
SALVADOR DALIWhat is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.
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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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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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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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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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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 true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
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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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I do not believe in my death.
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For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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Life is too short to remain unnoticed.
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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 mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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If 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!
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