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[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.
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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Film Director
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Cornish
New Hampshire
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Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí
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Salvador Dalí i Domènech
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Felip Jacint Domènech
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Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali.
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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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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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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.
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I don't need drugs. I am drugs.
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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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Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.
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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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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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Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius
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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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Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.
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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 famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.
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Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.
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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'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die.
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