This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
SALVADOR DALIIt 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.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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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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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
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My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.
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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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It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures
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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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We are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.
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For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
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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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I am the Don Quixote of unreality.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
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So little of what could happen does happen.
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The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
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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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Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?” Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.
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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 a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.
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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.
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