We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
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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Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
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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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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
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Do not be afraid of perfection – you will never attain it.
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There comes a moment in every person’s life when they realise they adore me.
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Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.
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An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
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God is present in everything.
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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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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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The problem with the youth of today’ is that one is no longer part of it.
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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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I am the Don Quixote of unreality.
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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
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I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
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Sometimes I spit on my mother’s portrait for pleasure.
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What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
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Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
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Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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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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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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God is just another artist, like me.
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