I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
SALVADOR DALII want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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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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The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
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I’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.
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Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
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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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The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.
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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
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The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
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Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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Sometimes I spit on my mother’s portrait for pleasure.
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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
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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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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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