Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
SALVADOR DALIThe terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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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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If I’m going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!
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Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.
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The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.
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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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I do not believe in my death.
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The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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I do not take drugs. I am drugs.
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To be interesting, one has to provoke.
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When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
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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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An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
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What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
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I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
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Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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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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It is either easy or impossible.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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Sometimes I spit on my mother’s portrait for pleasure.
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Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
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