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Art Quotes by Salvador Dali
- If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in…
- Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
- Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take…
- Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
- Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
- Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
- Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
- Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
- Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
- The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
- I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
- It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
- The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
- 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…
- 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 terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
- People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
- It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for…
- This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
- You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
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