If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
SALVADOR DALISince man’s highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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I am the Don Quixote of unreality.
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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 present in everything.
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Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.
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What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
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Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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God is just another artist, like me.
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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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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.
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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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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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Sometimes I spit on my mother’s portrait for pleasure.
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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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