Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
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.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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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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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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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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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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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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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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Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
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To be interesting, one has to provoke.
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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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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It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures
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I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache – it is better for the health.
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We are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.
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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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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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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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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
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I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
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