This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
SALVADOR DALIGeniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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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 am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
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Do not be afraid of perfection – you will never attain it.
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To be interesting, one has to provoke.
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The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
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I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache – it is better for the health.
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Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
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It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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