The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
SALVADOR DALITo be interesting, one has to provoke.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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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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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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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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I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
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Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.
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The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.
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People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
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Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.
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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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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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I am the Don Quixote of unreality.
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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Life is too short to remain unnoticed.
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I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache – it is better for the health.
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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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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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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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I am not strange. I am just not normal.
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We are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
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Let my enemies devour each other.
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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