Do not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.
SALVADOR DALIBeauty should be edible, or not at all.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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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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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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I am the Don Quixote of unreality.
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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To be interesting, one has to provoke.
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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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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God is just another artist, like me.
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It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
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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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Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
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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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People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
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I do not take drugs. I am drugs.
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Life is too short to remain unnoticed.
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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
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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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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
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