If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
SALVADOR DALIFor me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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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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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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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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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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My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.
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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 take drugs. I am drugs.
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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We are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.
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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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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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It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
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Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
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