Do not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.
SALVADOR DALIThe 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.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
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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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People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
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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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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache – it is better for the health.
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Do not be afraid of perfection – you will never attain it.
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For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
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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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Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
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When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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