There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
SALVADOR DALIGod invented man, and man invented the metric system.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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I’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.
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I do not believe in my death.
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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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Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
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The reason some portraits don’t look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
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I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache – it is better for the health.
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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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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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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
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Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
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You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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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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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
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Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
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Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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Sometimes I spit on my mother’s portrait for pleasure.
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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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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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Do not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.
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The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.
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My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.
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