Salvador Dali Quotes - Page 2

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• Forever will be you and me.

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  Forever, Be You

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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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• Qui sait déguster ne boit plus jamais de vin, mais goûte des secrets

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  Wine, Secret, Plus

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

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  Inspiring, Dream, Two

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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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• 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.

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  Art, Color, Drawing

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

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• It is either easy or impossible.

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  Art, Artist, Impossible

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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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• 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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• Everything that is contradictory creates life

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  Contradictory

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• Let my enemies devour each other.

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  Artist, Enemy, Surrealism

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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?

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  Serious, Doe, Ends

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• Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it.

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  Perfection

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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!

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  Wrinkles, Hair, Iron

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

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• Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

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  Nonsense, Should

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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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• 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 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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• 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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