Salvador Dali Quotes
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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.
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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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Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.
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The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
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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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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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To be interesting, one has to provoke.
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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us
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Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
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You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
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Forever will be you and me.
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Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.
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[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.
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So little of what could happen does happen.
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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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Everything that is contradictory creates life
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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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It is either easy or impossible.
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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
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And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.
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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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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 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.
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The world of the cinema and of painting are very different; precisely, the possibilities of photography and the cinema reside in that unlimited fantasy which is born of things themselves... a piece of sugar can become on the screen larger than an infinite perspective of gigantic buildings.
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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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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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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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