I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
SALVADOR DALIRight now I’m the greatest. I don’t say this through vanity. It’s just that the rest are so bad.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.
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Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures
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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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I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I’m never served a cooked telephone.
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The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.
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If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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The reason some portraits don’t look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
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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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What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
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Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
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There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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