Salvador Dali Quotes
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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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People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
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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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Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.
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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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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
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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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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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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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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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Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.
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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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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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Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it.