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.
SALVADOR DALIThe 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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All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
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I do not believe in my death.
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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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Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
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It is either easy or impossible.
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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So little of what could happen does happen.
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Since man’s highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.
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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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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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