The reason some portraits don’t look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
SALVADOR DALIGod invented man, and man invented the metric system.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.
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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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All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
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There comes a moment in every person’s life when they realise they adore me.
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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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So little of what could happen does happen.
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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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The problem with the youth of today’ is that one is no longer part of it.
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When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
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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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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.
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Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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