Salvador Dali Quotes
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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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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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The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
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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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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures.
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I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties.
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Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.
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[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'
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The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments.
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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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I will be sof brief, I have already finished.
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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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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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I'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die.
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The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
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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.
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People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
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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.
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There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me.
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Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.