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Salvador Dali Inspirational Quotes (82)

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New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.
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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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Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't cook and will. There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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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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You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
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I'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die.
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Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.
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[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.
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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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Whatever happens, my audience mustn't know whether I am spoofing or being serious and likewise I mustn't know either. I am in a constant interrogation when does the deep and philosophically valid Dali begin, and where does the looney and preposterous Dali end?
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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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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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Eroticism, hallucinogenic drugs, nuclear science, Gaudi's Gothic architecture, my love of gold - there is a common denominator in all of it: God is present in everything. The same magic is at the heart of all things, and all roads lead to the same revelation: we are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.
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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
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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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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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Life is too short to remain unnoticed
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The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
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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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