If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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Sometimes I spit on my mother’s portrait for pleasure.
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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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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
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I do not believe in my death.
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It is either easy or impossible.
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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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Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
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So little of what could happen does happen.
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The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.
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The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali.
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If I’m going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!
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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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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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The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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