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People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
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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.
Salvador Dali
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Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
Salvador Dali -
Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.
Salvador Dali -
I will be sof brief, I have already finished.
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[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'
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For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
Salvador Dali -
Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead.
Salvador Dali
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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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When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.
Salvador Dali -
I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
Salvador Dali -
Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.
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There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me.
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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
Salvador Dali
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Eroticism, hallucinogenic drugs, nuclear science, Gaudi's Gothic architecture, my love of gold - there is a common denominator in all of it: God is present in everything. The same magic is at the heart of all things, and all roads lead to the same revelation: we are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.
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Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.
Salvador Dali -
Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
Salvador Dali -
Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures.
Salvador Dali -
I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.
Salvador Dali
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Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!
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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
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Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
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And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.
Salvador Dali