Do not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.
SALVADOR DALILife is too short to remain unnoticed.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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God is present 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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I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache – it is better for the health.
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The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.
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So little of what could happen does happen.
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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
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Forever will be you and me.
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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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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My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.
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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
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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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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
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When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
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To be interesting, one has to provoke.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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I do not take drugs. I am drugs.
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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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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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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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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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