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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The reason some portraits don’t look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
SALVADOR DALIYoung people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.
SALVADOR DALIThe desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
SALVADOR DALIRepulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
SALVADOR DALIRight now I’m the greatest. I don’t say this through vanity. It’s just that the rest are so bad.
SALVADOR DALII am not strange. I am just not normal.
SALVADOR DALISo little of what could happen does happen.
SALVADOR DALIEveryone should eat hashish, but only once.
SALVADOR DALIHave no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
SALVADOR DALIIt 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.
SALVADOR DALIGreat 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.
SALVADOR DALIThose who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
SALVADOR DALII do not take drugs. I am drugs.
SALVADOR DALIIt’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.
SALVADOR DALIBeauty should be edible, or not at all.
SALVADOR DALIThis grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
SALVADOR DALIWars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
SALVADOR DALIThere are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
SALVADOR DALIEveryone should eat hashish, but only once.
SALVADOR DALIIt is either easy or impossible.
SALVADOR DALISince man’s highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.
SALVADOR DALIAnything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
SALVADOR DALIThe true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
SALVADOR DALIWhen we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
SALVADOR DALIPhysiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
SALVADOR DALIDrawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
SALVADOR DALIGive me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
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