Spanish - Artist | May 11, 1904 - January 23, 1989
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
Salvador Dali
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Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
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I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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