"If you understand a painting beforehand, you might……" — Salvador Dali
"If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it."
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Salvador Dali
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101 Quotes by Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali has 101 quotes on this site.
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Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet…
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I like Facebook. There many of my quotes will be known
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And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence…
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All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
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I don't take drugs: I am drugs.
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Qui sait déguster ne boit plus jamais de vin, mais goûte des secrets
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It is either easy or impossible.
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If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to…
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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity. You know, Dali spent…
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Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what…
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More Beforehand Quotes
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one of 143 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts…
— Saul Bellow
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I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken…
— Winston Churchill
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A warrior should not say something fainthearted, even casually. He should set his mind to this beforehand. Even in trifling…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer…
— Wilkie Collins
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With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots,…
— Sun Tzu
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The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy,…
— Sun Tzu
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Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
— John Selden
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He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was…
— Saint Augustine
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Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.
— Cindy Sherman
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