The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí
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“I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.”
“Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.”
“If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.”
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“Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.”
“For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.”
“I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.”
“Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.”
“There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me.”
“Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.”
“[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'”
“The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.”
“Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.”
“The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.”
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“Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!”
“Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it.”
“Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali.”
“An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.”
Source: The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí
“What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.”