Salvador Dali Quotes
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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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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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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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Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.
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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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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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And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.
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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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I tried sex once with a woman and that woman was Gala. It was overrated. I tried sex once with a man and that man was the famous juggler Federico Garcia Lorca [the Spanish Surrealist poet]. It was very painful.
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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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I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
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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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[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'
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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead.
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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
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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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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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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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Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
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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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I'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die.
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I will be sof brief, I have already finished.