Quotes by Salvador Dali

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  • I don't do drugs: I am drugs.
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  • Have no fear of perfection -- you will never reach it.
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  • There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
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  • The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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  • There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
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  • Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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  • There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
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  • Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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  • Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
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  • Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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  • Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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  • Let my enemies devour each other.
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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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  • I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
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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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  • Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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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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  • 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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  • Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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  • This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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  • There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
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  • The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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  • The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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  • The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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  • The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
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