Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
SALVADOR DALIThose who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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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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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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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
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I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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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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What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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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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I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache – it is better for the health.
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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
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I do not believe in my death.
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I’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.
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If I’m going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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