This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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 thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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To be interesting, one has to provoke.
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So little of what could happen does happen.
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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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I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
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It is either easy or impossible.
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The problem with the youth of today’ is that one is no longer part of it.
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Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.
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Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
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God is present in everything.
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Forever will be you and me.
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God is just another artist, like me.
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If I’m going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!
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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
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It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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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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I’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.
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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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Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
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