Salvador Dali quotes
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“Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.”
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“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
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“A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.”
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“Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art”
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“There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.”
-- Salvador DaliSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life”
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“The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.”
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“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.”
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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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“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.”
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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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“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”
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“Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.”
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“I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.”
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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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“Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.”
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“The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.”
-- Salvador DaliSource : Salvador Dali (2013). “The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí”, p.38, Courier Corporation
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“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
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“For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.”
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“The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind.”
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“Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us”
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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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“It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.”
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“Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.”
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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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“People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.”
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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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“Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.”
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“Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.”
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“If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.”
-- Salvador DaliSource : Salvador Dali (2013). “50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship”, p.15, Courier Corporation
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“The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets”
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“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.”
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“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.”
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“The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments”
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“Qui sait déguster ne boit plus jamais de vin, mais goûte des secrets”
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“I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.”
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“What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.”
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“There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.”
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“The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.”
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“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”
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“What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.”
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“I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.”
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“The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.”
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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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