If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
SALVADOR DALIThe true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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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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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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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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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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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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Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.
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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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The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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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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Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
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