Salvador Dali Quotes
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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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It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures.
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You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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Forever will be you and me.
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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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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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Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
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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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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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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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I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
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Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
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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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All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
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If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!
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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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Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali.
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Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
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Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.
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So little of what could happen does happen.
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I do not believe in my death.
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Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being Salvador Dalí - and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things this Salvador Dalí is going to accomplish today?
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To be interesting, one has to provoke.