All Salvador Dali Quotes
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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Art
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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Success
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The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
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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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At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
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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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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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Art
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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Intelligence
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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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I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
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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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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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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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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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