Sometimes I spit on my mother’s portrait for pleasure.
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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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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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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People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
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So little of what could happen does happen.
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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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I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache – it is better for the health.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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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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I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
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The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
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The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.
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Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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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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Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
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God is present in everything.
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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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The problem with the youth of today’ is that one is no longer part of it.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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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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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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What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
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I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
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