The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
SALVADOR DALIThe 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.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
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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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So little of what could happen does happen.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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I am not strange. I am just not normal.
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Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.
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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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There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
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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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Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
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I do not take drugs. I am drugs.
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