Salvador Dali Quotes

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Salvador Dali

Profession : Artist

Birth : May 11, 1904

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.

Salvador Dali

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

Salvador Dali

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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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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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

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

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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

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I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

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

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

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The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

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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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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

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

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Let my enemies devour each other.

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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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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

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

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

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