Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
SALVADOR DALIIf you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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Happy is he who causes a scandal.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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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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Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.
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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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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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Right now I’m the greatest. I don’t say this through vanity. It’s just that the rest are so bad.
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There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
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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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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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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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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.
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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 not strange. I am just not normal.
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So little of what could happen does happen.
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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
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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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The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
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Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.
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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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