The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.
SALVADOR DALIThe terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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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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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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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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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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Sometimes I spit on my mother’s portrait for pleasure.
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Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
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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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So little of what could happen does happen.
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The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.
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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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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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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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Let my enemies devour each other.
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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
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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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Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
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To be interesting, one has to provoke.
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My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.
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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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I am the Don Quixote of unreality.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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Forever will be you and me.
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