Top 100 Salvador Dali Quotes
#2. 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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#3. Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it.
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#4. Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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#8. Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us
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#9. I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties ...
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#11. 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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#12. If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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#13. 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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#14. My mother's death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her ... I could not resign myself to the loss of a being on whom I counted to make invisible the unavoidable blemishes of my soul.
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#15. When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.
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#16. Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
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#18. The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
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#20. All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
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#22. 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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#23. Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
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#24. Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
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#25. The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets
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#26. Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!
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#27. 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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#28. The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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#31. 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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#33. Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
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#34. Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.
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#35. 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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#36. 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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#38. 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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#39. Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future
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#40. The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
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#42. 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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#43. Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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#44. I believe that the moment is near when
by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality.
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#45. The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
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#46. I tried sex once with a woman and it was Gala. It was overated. I tried sex once with a man and that man was the famous juggler Frederico Garcia Lorca. It was very painful.
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#47. Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic
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#48. We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
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#49. 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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#50. The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.
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#52. Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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#54. There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
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#55. 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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#56. Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.
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#57. [My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'
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#58. Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
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#59. In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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#60. Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision ...
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#61. 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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#62. Intelligence without ambition is a bird without winds.
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#63. You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
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#64. The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali
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#65. For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
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#66. I tried sex once with a woman and that woman was Gala. It was overrated. I tried sex once with a man and that man was the famous juggler Federico Garcia Lorca [the Spanish Surrealist poet]. It was very painful.
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#67. The only difference between me and a madman is I'm not mad.
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#69. 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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#70. Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.
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#71. I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.
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#72. When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath
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#73. Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
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#74. Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
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#75. 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.
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#76. This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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#77. An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
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#78. What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
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#79. Surrealism is not a movement. It is a latent state of mind perceivable through the powers of dream and nightmare.
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#80. Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality ...
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#81. The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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#84. 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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#85. Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead
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#86. 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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#87. Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.
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#88. God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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#89. 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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#90. The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.
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#91. I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
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#93. The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.
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#94. The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
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#95. People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
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#97. 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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#98. 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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#100. Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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