The reason some portraits don’t look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
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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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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Let my enemies devour each other.
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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Right now I’m the greatest. I don’t say this through vanity. It’s just that the rest are so bad.
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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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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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Happy is he who causes a scandal.
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Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
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The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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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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