I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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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To be interesting, one has to provoke.
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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
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Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
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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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So little of what could happen does happen.
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Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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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 either easy or impossible.
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Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.
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My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.
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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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For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
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Since man’s highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.
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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache – it is better for the health.
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God is present in everything.
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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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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
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Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
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