The reason some portraits don’t look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
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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Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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God is just another artist, like me.
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It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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So little of what could happen does happen.
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Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
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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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It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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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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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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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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Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
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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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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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Happy is he who causes a scandal.
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Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
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I do not believe in my death.
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I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache – it is better for the health.
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Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.
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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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Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?” Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.
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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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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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