Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
SALVADOR DALIMustache? Mustache? Mustache?” Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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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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Do not be afraid of perfection – you will never attain it.
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I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I’m never served a cooked telephone.
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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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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Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.
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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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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
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The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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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 do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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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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Sometimes I spit on my mother’s portrait for pleasure.
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