There comes a moment in every person’s life when they realise they adore me.
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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For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
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Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.
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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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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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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
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I’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.
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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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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 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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Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?” Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.
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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
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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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It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
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Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
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To be interesting, one has to provoke.
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People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.
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There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
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I do not take drugs. I am drugs.
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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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Do not be afraid of perfection – you will never attain it.
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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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I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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