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Best 60 Quotes by Salvador Dalí – Page 2 of 2

“People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.”

“Since I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache – it is better for the health.

However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style.

I offered them politely to my friends: “Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?”

Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.”

“So little of what could happen does happen.”

“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”

“Surrealism is not a movement. It is a latent state of mind perceivable through the powers of dream and nightmare.”

“Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.”

“The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.”

“The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.”

“The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.”

“There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.”

“There is more madness to my method than method to my madness.”

“There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.”

“This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.”

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“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”

“Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.”

“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.”

“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.”

“What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.”

“When I paint, the sea roars. The others splash about in the bath.”

“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.”

“When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.”

“You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.”

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“I believe that the sweetest freedoms for a person on earth is to be able to live without having to work.”

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“I had a bad trait since my childhood, which is that I consider myself different from ordinary people!”

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“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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The Secret Life Of Salvador Dali Quotes

“An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.”

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“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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