Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete…

Salvador Dali

It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures

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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…

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To be interesting, one has to provoke.

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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

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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 The unpublished parts will appear…

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Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses.

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