Salvador Dali Quotes
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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.
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At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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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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What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
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I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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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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Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
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I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
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The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.
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We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
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Photographic data... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which exist between reality and surreality. The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.
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[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.
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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
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Life is too short to remain unnoticed.
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One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.
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Whatever happens, my audience mustn't know whether I am spoofing or being serious; and likewise I mustn't know either. I am in a constant interrogation; when does the deep and philosophically valid Dali begin, and where does the looney and preposterous Dali end?
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New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.
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Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead.