I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
SALVADOR DALIIf you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
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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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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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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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So little of what could happen does happen.
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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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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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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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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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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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