The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
SALVADOR DALIGive me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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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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Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
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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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An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
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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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Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
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I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
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Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.
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It is either easy or impossible.
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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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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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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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I am not strange. I am just not normal.
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Forever will be you and me.
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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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