Salvador Dali Quotes
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For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
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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 communist. Neither am I.
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Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.
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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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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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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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All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
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Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses.
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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.
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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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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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I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry.
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Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it.
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The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.
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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
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You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.
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Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch.
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Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.