Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
SALVADOR DALII am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
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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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An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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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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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’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.
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So little of what could happen does happen.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
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To be interesting, one has to provoke.
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The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
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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 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 am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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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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The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.
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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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Let my enemies devour each other.
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Sometimes I spit on my mother’s portrait for pleasure.
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Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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