A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
SALVADOR DALIAll of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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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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When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
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Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?” Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.
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God is just another artist, like me.
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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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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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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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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
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The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.
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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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I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I’m never served a cooked telephone.
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.
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