I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
SALVADOR DALIThe sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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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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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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All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
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Forever will be you and me.
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The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.
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Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
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It is either easy or impossible.
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Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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God is present in everything.
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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 am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
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The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali.
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Do not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.
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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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