Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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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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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Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.
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I’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.
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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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What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
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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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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
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Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
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Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
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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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When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
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Happy is he who causes a scandal.
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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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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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