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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.

Salvador Dali

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Salvador Dali
Age: 84 †
Born: 1904
Born: May 11
Died: 1989
Died: January 23
Actor
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New Hampshire
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Salvador Dalí i Domènech
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Felip Jacint Domènech
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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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[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.
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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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All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
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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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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath
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Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius
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Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art.
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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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Photographic data... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which exist between reality and surreality. The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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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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Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.
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Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses.
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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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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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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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Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!
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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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