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Do not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.

Salvador Dali

Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?” Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.
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Dare Mustache Scare Touch
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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Hide Law Order Perceive Power Understand Want
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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Artist Happen Painting Stroke
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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Bad Greatness Rest Vanity
I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
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Appearance Canvas Photograph Surprise
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
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Hungry Photograph Thrust
Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.
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Achievement Difficult People Young Youth
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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Cook Restaurant Telephone Understand
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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Imitate Inspirational Produce
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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Alcohol Drink Growth Love Mad Over Poet Requirement Watch Wine
The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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Capture Fact Invention Photography Reality Secret
There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
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Deep Die Overdose Satisfaction Thinking
For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
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Beautiful Death Divine Love Ugly
It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures
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Blood Paint Painting
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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Comparison Man Repeat Rose Woman Young
Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
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Artist Painting

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