This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
SALVADOR DALIWhen I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
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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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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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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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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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Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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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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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 desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
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For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
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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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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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It is either easy or impossible.
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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures
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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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My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.
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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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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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Right now I’m the greatest. I don’t say this through vanity. It’s just that the rest are so bad.
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