I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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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The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
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Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?” Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.
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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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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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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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We are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.
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Happy is he who causes a scandal.
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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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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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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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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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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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Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
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I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I’m never served a cooked telephone.
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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