Salvador Dali Quotes

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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

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Funny, Music, Sarcastic

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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

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Artist, Inspire, Inspired

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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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Clever, Artist, Thinking

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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

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Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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Life is too short to remain unnoticed

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Life, Too Short, Unnoticed

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

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Art, Creativity, Confusion

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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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Dream, Reality, One Day

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I am not strange. I am just not normal.

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Life, Normal, Strange

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Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.

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

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Photography, Vision, Shackles

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Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.

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Knowing, Looks, Way

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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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Nature, Mistake, Design

"Diary of a Genius" by Salvador Dali, Creation Books, (p. 26), 1998.

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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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Mean, Doe, Facts

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To be interesting, one has to provoke.

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Interesting, Provoking

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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

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Understanding, Might, Painting

Salvador Dali (2013). “50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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So little of what could happen does happen.

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Doe, Littles, Happens

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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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Life, Happiness, Happy

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I do not take drugs. I am drugs.

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Drug

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

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Life, Beautiful, Art

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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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Wise, Wine, Men

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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.

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Finished

"The very short speeches that have become famous" by Lucy Kinder, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 23, 2013.

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There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me.

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Moments, Adore, Realising

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

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Women, Hair, Arms

Salvador Dali (2013). “The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí”, p.178, Courier Corporation

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

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People, Effort, True Life

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

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Artist, Drug, Hallucinogens

"Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, (p. 737), 2012.

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Born: May 11, 1904
Died: January 23, 1989
Occupation: Painter
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