Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
SALVADOR DALISometimes I spit on my mother’s portrait for pleasure.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
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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 true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
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It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures
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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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Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
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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 desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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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 reason some portraits don’t look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
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The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.
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I am not strange. I am just not normal.
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When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
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There comes a moment in every person’s life when they realise they adore me.
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
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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 do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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The problem with the youth of today’ is that one is no longer part of it.
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