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All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Salvador Dali

My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.
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Art Capable Liberation Practical Rational World
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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Artist Inspirational True
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
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Attitude Insane Mad Man Thinking
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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Brillance Difference False Jewelry Memories Real True
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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Fact Myself Painting Understand
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.
SALVADOR DALI

Brillance Difference False Jewelry Memories Real True
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.
SALVADOR DALI

Consist Earth Freedom Need Sweet Work
Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
SALVADOR DALI

Artist Painting
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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Effort Life People Picture Potrait Reason Resemble True
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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High Man Mission Need Particular Spiritual
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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Influence Remain Secret
I am not strange. I am just not normal.
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Life Normal One Liner Strange
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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Democracy Habit Publication Society
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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Joke Myself Necessary Public Serious
Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.
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Achievement Difficult People Young Youth
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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Comparison Man Repeat Rose Woman Young

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