What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
SALVADOR DALII do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I’m never served a cooked telephone.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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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 am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
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Sometimes I spit on my mother’s portrait for pleasure.
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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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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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Do not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.
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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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Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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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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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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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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