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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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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Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.
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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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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
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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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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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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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Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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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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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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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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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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Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.
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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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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
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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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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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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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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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Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.
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Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear later... when Europe will have restored its traditional monarchies.
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Forever will be you and me.