I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
SALVADOR DALIGod invented man, and man invented the metric system.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.
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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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Sometimes I spit on my mother’s portrait for pleasure.
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People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
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To be interesting, one has to provoke.
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The problem with the youth of today’ is that one is no longer part of it.
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Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
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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.
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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
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Since man’s highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.
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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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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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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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