Salvador Dali Quotes - Page 2

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• Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.

  Salvador Dali

  Inspiring, Dream, Two

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• It is either easy or impossible.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Artist, Impossible

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• Let my enemies devour each other.

  Salvador Dali

  Artist, Enemy, Surrealism

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• Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

  Salvador Dali

  Nonsense, Should

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• 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?

  Salvador Dali

  Serious, Doe, Ends

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

  Salvador Dali

  People, Effort, True Life

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• 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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  Order, Law, Want

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• The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets

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  Wine, Secret, Doe

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• The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

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  Ideas, Usual, Able

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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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  Love, Memories, Real

  Salvador Dali (2013). “The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future

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  Eye, Men

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• If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Color, Drawing

  "Diary of a Genius". Book by Salvador Dali, p. 81, 1964.

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• Forever will be you and me.

  Salvador Dali

  Forever, Be You

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• Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.

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  Mistake, Sacred, Contrary

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• What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

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  Confusion, Important, Anarchy

  "Meta-Algorithmics: Patterns for Robust, Low Cost, High Quality Systems" by Steven J. Simske, John Wiley & Sons, (p. 272), May 28, 2013.

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• Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!

  Salvador Dali

  Wrinkles, Hair, Iron

  Salvador Dali (2013). “The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

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  Crazy, Jewels, Mustache

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• Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.

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  People, Age, Too Much

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

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  Art, Morning, Creativity

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

  Salvador Dali

  Women, Hair, Arms

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

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• Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art

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  Art, Frustration, Doe

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• 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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  Sex, Men, Painful

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• For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Looks, Ugly

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• You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity. You know, Dali spent two months in jail in Spain, and these two months were the most enjoyable and happy in my life. Before my jail period, I was always nervous, anxious. I didn't know if I should make a drawing, or perhaps make a poem, or go to the movies or the theatre, or catch a girl, or play with the boys. The people put me in jail, and my life became divine. Tremendous!

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  Girl, Creativity, Boys

  Dali interviewed by Victor Bockris, 1974.

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