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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.

Salvador Dali

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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Paint Painting Understand
Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
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Activity Dreams Inspirational
Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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Invention Look
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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Art Average Life Need Remember
Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
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Genius Madness
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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Die Exception Hurt People War
Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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Depend Die Genius Mankind Progress
The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali.
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Artist Happen Painting Stroke
Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?” Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.
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Dare Mustache Scare Touch
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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Democracy Habit Publication Society
The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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Capture Fact Invention Photography Reality Secret
Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
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Accomplishment Expenditure Expression Love People Physical Physiology
The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
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Artist Ideas Painting True
Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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Art Painting Place Work
We are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.
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Children God Mankind Perfection Universe
Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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Drug Eat

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