Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
SALVADOR DALISometimes I spit on my mother’s portrait for pleasure.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
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Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
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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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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
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Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
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When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
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The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali.
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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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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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