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.
SALVADOR DALISurrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
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It is either easy or impossible.
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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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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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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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Do not be afraid of perfection – you will never attain it.
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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
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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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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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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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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
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Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?” Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.
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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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