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.
SALVADOR DALIThe secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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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 problem with the youth of today’ is that one is no longer part of it.
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Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
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Forever will be you and me.
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I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache – it is better for the health.
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Let my enemies devour each other.
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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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Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
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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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When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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Happy is he who causes a scandal.
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An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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God is just another artist, like me.
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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 not strange. I am just not normal.
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I am the Don Quixote of unreality.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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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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What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
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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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It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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