This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
SALVADOR DALII 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.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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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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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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My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.
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To be interesting, one has to provoke.
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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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I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
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It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
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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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Sometimes I spit on my mother’s portrait for pleasure.
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The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
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Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
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