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One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.
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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
Salvador Dali
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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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You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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I'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die.
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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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The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments.
Salvador Dali
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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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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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Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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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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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.
Salvador Dali
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Whatever happens, my audience mustn't know whether I am spoofing or being serious; and likewise I mustn't know either. I am in a constant interrogation; when does the deep and philosophically valid Dali begin, and where does the looney and preposterous Dali end?
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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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Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
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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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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.
Salvador Dali
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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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Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.
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To be interesting, one has to provoke.
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Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.
Salvador Dali