I am the Don Quixote of unreality.
SALVADOR DALIThe fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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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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The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
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So little of what could happen does happen.
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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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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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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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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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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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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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Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.
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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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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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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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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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