I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
SALVADOR DALIThe desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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God is present in everything.
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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.
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To be interesting, one has to provoke.
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You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?” Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.
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I’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.
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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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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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