Salvador Dali Quotes
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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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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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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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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The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
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You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity. You know, Dali spent two months in jail in Spain, and these two months were the most enjoyable and happy in my life. Before my jail period, I was always nervous, anxious. I didn't know if I should make a drawing, or perhaps make a poem, or go to the movies or the theatre, or catch a girl, or play with the boys. The people put me in jail, and my life became divine. Tremendous!
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Let my enemies devour each other.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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Happy is he who causes a scandal.
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It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.