Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
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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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
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The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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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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Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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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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Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
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All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
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Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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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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