Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
SALVADOR DALIThis grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.
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Sometimes I spit on my mother’s portrait for pleasure.
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Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
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So little of what could happen does happen.
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Do not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.
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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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I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache – it is better for the health.
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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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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.
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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
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