I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
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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Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
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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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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.
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It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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Let my enemies devour each other.
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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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Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
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When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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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 want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
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Happy is he who causes a scandal.
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The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.
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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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God is present in everything.
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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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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
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