Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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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The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.
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I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.
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Sometimes I spit on my mother’s portrait for pleasure.
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The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
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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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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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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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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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Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.
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I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache – it is better for the health.
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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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Do not be afraid of perfection – you will never attain it.
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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
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The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.
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Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
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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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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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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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