Salvador Dali Quotes - Page 5

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

  Salvador Dali

  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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• Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

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  Habit, Revelations, Democratic

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• Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.

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  Sex, Accomplish Nothing, Self

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• God invented man, and man invented the metric system.

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  Men, Metrics, Metric System

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• Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali.

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  Morning, Awakening, Today

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• Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead

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  Wine, Secret, Taste

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• This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

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  Art, Tragedy, Modern

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• It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

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  Creativity, Design, Creative

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• Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.

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  Should, Hashish

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• The world of the cinema and of painting are very different; precisely, the possibilities of photography and the cinema reside in that unlimited fantasy which is born of things themselves... a piece of sugar can become on the screen larger than an infinite perspective of gigantic buildings.

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  Photography, Perspective, Different

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• Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

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  Museums, Trying, Purpose

  Salvador Dali (2013). “The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí”, p.397, Courier Corporation

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• I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

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  Artist, World, Scandal

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• We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

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  Art, Hungry, Thirsty

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• I don't need drugs. I am drugs.

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  Drug, Needs

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• [My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

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  Art, Men, World

  "Diary of a Genius". Book by Salvador Dali, p. 9, 1964.

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• New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.

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  Land, Skins, Liberty

  Salvador Dali (2013). “The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí”, p.393, Courier Corporation

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• Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.

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  Art, Communist

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• 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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  Love, Respect, Artist

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• Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

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  Money, Saving Money, Glory

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• I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties.

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  Writing, Doubt, Lions

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• Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch.

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  Clerks, Watches, Painting

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• I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed.

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  Worry, Legs, Painful

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• The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.

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  Differences, Mad, Facts

  Salvador Dali (2013). “The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí”, p.349, Courier Corporation

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• Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear later... when Europe will have restored its traditional monarchies.

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  Government, Europe, Habit

  "Diary of a Genius". Book by Salvador Dali, p. 2, 1964.

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