Salvador Dali Quotes
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You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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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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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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Forever will be you and me.
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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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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 The unpublished parts will appear later...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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To be interesting, one has to provoke.
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Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed.
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Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali.
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Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.
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I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
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Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
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It is either easy or impossible.
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Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali.
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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
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Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!
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Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
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What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.