"We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete……" — Salvador Dali
"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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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 Abstract Quotes
This quote is filed under Abstract Quotes,
one of 741 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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