I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
SALVADOR DALII am the Don Quixote of unreality.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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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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The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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Since man’s highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.
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When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
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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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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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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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There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
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Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
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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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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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Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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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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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.
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Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.
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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
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I do not believe in my death.
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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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