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.
SALVADOR DALIWe are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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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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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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There comes a moment in every person’s life when they realise they adore me.
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The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.
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Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
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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 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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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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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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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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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 is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
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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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It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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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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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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Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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It is either easy or impossible.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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