Do not be afraid of perfection – you will never attain it.
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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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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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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I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache – it is better for the health.
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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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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
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I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.
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It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
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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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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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The problem with the youth of today’ is that one is no longer part of it.
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.
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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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