Right now I’m the greatest. I don’t say this through vanity. It’s just that the rest are so bad.
SALVADOR DALISometimes I spit on my mother’s portrait for pleasure.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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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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Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
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We are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.
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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
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When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
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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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The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
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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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People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
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Do not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.
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