I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I’m never served a cooked telephone.
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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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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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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Do not be afraid of perfection – you will never attain it.
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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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Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
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Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.
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I’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.
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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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It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.
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Forever will be you and me.
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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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God is present in everything.
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The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
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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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I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
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When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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To be interesting, one has to provoke.
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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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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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