I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
SALVADOR DALIThe two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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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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I am not strange. I am just not normal.
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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
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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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Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
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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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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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