The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
SALVADOR DALII do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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I do not believe in my death.
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Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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I do not take drugs. I am drugs.
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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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My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.
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It is either easy or impossible.
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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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Happy is he who causes a scandal.
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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 am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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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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Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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