Do not be afraid of perfection – you will never attain it.
SALVADOR DALII am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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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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Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
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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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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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To be interesting, one has to provoke.
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Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
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There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
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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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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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There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
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What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
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I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
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My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.
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