Salvador Dali Quotes - Page 4

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• Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali.

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  Morning, Joy, Awake

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• The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

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  Sad Life, Desire, Artistic

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• I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

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  Life, Hipster, Epic

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• 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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  Men, Thinking, Needs

  "Diary of a Genius". Book by Salvador Dali, p. 79, 1964.

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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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  Art, Portraits, Doe

  Quoted in Esar A Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951).

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• I will be sof brief, I have already finished.

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  Finished

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

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  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• 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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  Life, Art, Average

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• I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.

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  Profound, Inspire, Trying

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• Happy is he who causes a scandal

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  Scandal, Causes

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• 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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  Men, Needs, Earth

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• 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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  Two, Luck, Painter

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• Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius

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  Genius, Madness

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• 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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  Paint, Masters, Draws

  Salvador Dali (2013). “50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• I do not believe in my death.

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  Believe

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• Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.

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  Reality, World, Delirium

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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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  Modern, Bother, One Thing

  "Diary of a Genius" by Salvador Dali, Creation Books, (p. 42), 1998.

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• Drawing is the honesty of the art.

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  Art, Honesty, Drawing

  "People" Magazine, September 27, 1976.

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• [I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.

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  Men, Contradictory, Paradoxical

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• There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't cook and will. There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

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  Differences, Mad, Spouse

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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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  Art, Character, People

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• 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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  Doubt, Mind, Sound

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• 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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  Dream, Wall, Eye

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

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• Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!

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  Photography, Lenses, Unexpected

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• Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!

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  Discovery, Fantasy, Process

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