Salvador Dali Quotes
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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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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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The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
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The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments.
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It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures.
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[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'
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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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Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.
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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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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 true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
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I will be sof brief, I have already finished.
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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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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 shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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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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It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
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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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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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For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
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Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
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There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me.