Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
SALVADOR DALIThe problem with the youth of today’ is that one is no longer part of it.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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God is present in everything.
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Life is too short to remain unnoticed.
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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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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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I’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.
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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
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Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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The reason some portraits don’t look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
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There comes a moment in every person’s life when they realise they adore me.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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We are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.
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I am the Don Quixote of unreality.
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For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
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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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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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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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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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