I am not strange. I am just not normal.
SALVADOR DALIMan cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
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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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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
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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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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
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I do not take drugs. I am drugs.
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Do not be afraid of perfection – you will never attain it.
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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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It is either easy or impossible.
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Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
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I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache – it is better for the health.
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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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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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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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I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
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Since man’s highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.
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Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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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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Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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