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 DALIPeople love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
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Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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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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I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
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I am not strange. I am just not normal.
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We are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
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What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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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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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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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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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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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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It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures
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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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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.
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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 communist. Neither am I.
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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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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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