I’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.
SALVADOR DALIPeople love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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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 connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.
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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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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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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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Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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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.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
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I am the Don Quixote of unreality.
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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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Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.
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Happy is he who causes a scandal.
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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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