Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
SALVADOR DALISometimes I spit on my mother’s portrait for pleasure.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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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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The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
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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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People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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God is just another artist, like me.
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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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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache – it is better for the health.
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Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
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Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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