Salvador Dali Quotes
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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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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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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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Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead.
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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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The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments.
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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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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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Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
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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 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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The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
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It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures.
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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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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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There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me.
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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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Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?" Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.
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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.