Do not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.
SALVADOR DALIThose who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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Life is too short to remain unnoticed.
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I do not take drugs. I am drugs.
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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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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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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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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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Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
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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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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.
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So little of what could happen does happen.
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The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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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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Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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