Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
SALVADOR DALIDo not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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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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The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.
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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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Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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If I’m going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!
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I am the Don Quixote of unreality.
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Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
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The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.
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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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Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
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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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