Salvador Dali Quotes
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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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Forever will be you and me.
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You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
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Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali.
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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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I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
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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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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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Everything alters me, but nothing changes 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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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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It is either easy or impossible.
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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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Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it.
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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
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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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The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.
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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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To be interesting, one has to provoke.
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Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
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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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What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.