The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali.
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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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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Happy is he who causes a scandal.
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My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.
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God is present in everything.
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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
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Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
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Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
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Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.
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The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.
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It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures
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The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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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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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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God is just another artist, like me.
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