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Salvador Dali quotes: Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties. Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
Salvador Dali quotes: Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory. Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
Salvador Dali quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being. Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.
Salvador Dali quotes: God is just another artist, like me. God is just another artist, like me.
Salvador Dali quotes: For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful. For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
Salvador Dali quotes: Knowing how to look is a way of inventing. Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
Salvador Dali quotes: Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid. Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
Salvador Dali quotes: There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me. There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me.
Salvador Dali quotes: There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Salvador Dali quotes: It is either easy or impossible. It is either easy or impossible.
Salvador Dali quotes: I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone. I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.
Salvador Dali quotes: [My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.' [My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'
Salvador Dali quotes: [I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man. [I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.
Salvador Dali quotes: We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art. We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Salvador Dali quotes: When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath
Salvador Dali quotes: Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad. Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.
Salvador Dali quotes: The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dali quotes: What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it. What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
Salvador Dali quotes: The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali
Salvador Dali quotes: It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures
Salvador Dali quotes: Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius
Salvador Dali quotes: I will be sof brief, I have already finished. I will be sof brief, I have already finished.
Salvador Dali quotes: Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise! Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
Salvador Dali quotes: Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Salvador Dali quotes: Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making. Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
Salvador Dali quotes: Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most. Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.
Salvador Dali quotes: Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating: It is either good or bad. Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating: It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dali quotes: Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us
Salvador Dali quotes: I don't take drugs: I am drugs. I don't take drugs: I am drugs.
Salvador Dali quotes: Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Salvador Dali quotes: The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures. The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
Salvador Dali quotes: Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire. Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
Salvador Dali quotes: Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it. Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.
Salvador Dali quotes: Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead
Salvador Dali quotes: To be interesting, one has to provoke. To be interesting, one has to provoke.
Salvador Dali quotes: Intelligence without ambition is a bird without winds. Intelligence without ambition is a bird without winds.
Salvador Dali quotes: So little of what could happen does happen. So little of what could happen does happen.
Salvador Dali quotes: 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. 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.
Salvador Dali quotes: Happy is he who causes a scandal Happy is he who causes a scandal
Salvador Dali quotes: An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms. An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
Salvador Dali quotes: I am not strange. I am just not normal. I am not strange. I am just not normal.
Salvador Dali quotes: The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
Salvador Dali quotes: I don't need drugs. I am drugs. I don't need drugs. I am drugs.
Salvador Dali quotes: Drawing is the honesty of the art. Drawing is the honesty of the art.
Salvador Dali quotes: Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Salvador Dali quotes: Everything alters me, but nothing changes me. Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
Salvador Dali quotes: The only difference between me and a madman is I'm not mad. The only difference between me and a madman is I'm not mad.
Salvador Dali quotes: I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly. I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
Salvador Dali quotes: Everyone should eat hashish, but only once. Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
Salvador Dali quotes: Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis. Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.
Salvador Dali quotes: It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
Salvador Dali quotes: Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you. Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
Salvador Dali quotes: The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret. The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
Salvador Dali quotes: Picasso is a communist. Neither am I. Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
Salvador Dali quotes: I shall be so brief that I have already finished I shall be so brief that I have already finished
Salvador Dali quotes: The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas. The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
Salvador Dali quotes: Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams. Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
Salvador Dali quotes: The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
Salvador Dali quotes: Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
Salvador Dali quotes: I do not believe in my death. I do not believe in my death.
Salvador Dali quotes: The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets
Salvador Dali quotes: The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless. The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
Salvador Dali quotes: 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! 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!
Salvador Dali quotes: Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I. Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
Salvador Dali quotes: Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure. Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.
Salvador Dali quotes: Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali. Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
Salvador Dali quotes: A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others. A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
Salvador Dali quotes: We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right. We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
Salvador Dali quotes: Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic
Salvador Dali quotes: Beauty should be edible, or not at all. Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
Salvador Dali quotes: All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting. All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
Salvador Dali quotes: Forever will be you and me. Forever will be you and me.
Salvador Dali quotes: Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes! Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!
Salvador Dali quotes: The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador Dali quotes: I don't do drugs. I am drugs. I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
Salvador Dali quotes: Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all. Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
Salvador Dali quotes: Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it. Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it.
Salvador Dali quotes: I do not take drugs. I am drugs. I do not take drugs. I am drugs.
Salvador Dali quotes: I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas. I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
Salvador Dali quotes: I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait. I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Salvador Dali quotes: And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God. And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.
Salvador Dali quotes: I never took drugs, because I am drugs I never took drugs, because I am drugs
Salvador Dali quotes: The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous. The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
Salvador Dali quotes: At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
Salvador Dali quotes: When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault. When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.
Salvador Dali quotes: You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
Salvador Dali quotes: Let my enemies devour each other Let my enemies devour each other
Salvador Dali quotes: I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power. I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
Salvador Dali quotes: Surrealism is not a movement. It is a latent state of mind perceivable through the powers of dream and nightmare. Surrealism is not a movement. It is a latent state of mind perceivable through the powers of dream and nightmare.
Salvador Dali quotes: I'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die. I'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die.
Salvador Dali quotes: Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality ... Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality ...
Salvador Dali quotes: The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad. The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.
Salvador Dali quotes: The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space. The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.
Salvador Dali quotes: This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art. This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
Salvador Dali quotes: People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings. People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
Salvador Dali quotes: Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future
Salvador Dali quotes: Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision ... Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision ...
Salvador Dali quotes: I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work. I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.
Salvador Dali quotes: Life is too short to remain unnoticed Life is too short to remain unnoticed

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