Spanish - Artist | May 11, 1904 - January 23, 1989
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.
Salvador Dali
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
ImaginationWantNothingAnything
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
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I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
I AmAm
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
NatureMistakesYouPossibleNever
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
WorldThoughtEnoughWillNever
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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Let my enemies devour each other.
EnemiesOtherDevourEach
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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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.
GoodArtWillConcreteAbstract
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
YouWhateverModernBeingOne Thing
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