Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
SALVADOR DALIThere are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.
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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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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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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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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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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 don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache – it is better for the health.
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I’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.
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All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
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Happy is he who causes a scandal.
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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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Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate 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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The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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We are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.
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So little of what could happen does happen.
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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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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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