Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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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Right now I’m the greatest. I don’t say this through vanity. It’s just that the rest are so bad.
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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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To be interesting, one has to provoke.
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It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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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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I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
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Happy is he who causes a scandal.
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So little of what could happen does happen.
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Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
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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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Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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Let my enemies devour each other.
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Do not be afraid of perfection – you will never attain it.
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All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
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The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
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Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
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I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
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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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There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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We are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.
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