People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
SALVADOR DALINothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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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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Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
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The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
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Life is too short to remain unnoticed.
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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
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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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Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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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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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
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I am the Don Quixote of unreality.
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Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
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Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.
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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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Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.
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When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
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Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.
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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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Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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