Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
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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To be interesting, one has to provoke.
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I am not strange. I am just not normal.
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When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
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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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Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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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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Forever will be you and me.
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The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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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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You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
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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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