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God is present in everything.

Salvador Dali

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
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Love Mystery Painting People
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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High Man Mission Need Particular Spiritual
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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Bad Greatness Rest Vanity
The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
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Fact Myself Painting Understand
Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
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Glory Money
Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
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Genius Madness
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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Democracy Habit Publication Society
If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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Paint Painting Understand
Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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Avoidance Bother Modern Unfortunately
Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
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Alter Change Inspirational One Liner
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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Cook Restaurant Telephone Understand
It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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Laundry Lost Love
Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
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Birthday People Reach Time
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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Growth Look Paint Person Potrait Subject
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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Consist Earth Freedom Need Sweet Work
It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures
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Blood Paint Painting
Do not be afraid of perfection – you will never attain it.
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Afraid Attain Perfection
Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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Communism Painting
We are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.
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Children God Mankind Perfection Universe
The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.
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Soft Solitary Space Tender Watch
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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Die Exception Hurt People War
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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Artist Inspirational True
Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
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Activity Dreams Inspirational
God is just another artist, like me.
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Artist God Myself
The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
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Artist Ideas Painting True
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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Beginning Learning Master Old Paint Respect
There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
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Deep Die Overdose Satisfaction Thinking

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