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Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
Salvador Dalí
So little of what could happen does happen.
Salvador Dalí
Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
Salvador Dalí
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.
Salvador Dalí
Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
Salvador Dalí
Forever will be you and me.
Salvador Dalí
The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
Salvador Dalí
I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
Salvador Dalí
I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties...
Salvador Dalí
People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
Salvador Dalí
What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
Salvador Dalí
One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.
Salvador Dalí
In the Surrealist period, I wanted to create the iconography of the interior world and the world of the marvelous, of my father Freud. Today, the exterior world and that of physics has transcended the one of psychology. My father today is Dr. Heisenberg.
Salvador Dalí
The more I looked at his face [of Saint Sebastian] the more curious it seemed. That said, I seemed to have always known it and the aseptic morning light revealed its smallest details which such clarity, such purity, that I was impossible moved... In the upper part of the heliometer was St. Sebastian's magnifying glass... I put my eye to the magnifying glass, product of a slow distillation, at once numerical and intuitive. Each drop of water a number. Each drop of blood a geometry.
Salvador Dalí
In the degree that the images of concrete irrationality approach phenomenal reality, the corresponding means of expression approach those of the great realist painters - Velasquez and Vermeer of Delft - to paint realistically according to irrational thought, according to the unknown imagination.
Salvador Dalí
In 1951 the two most subversive things that could happen to an ex-surrealist were: firstly, to become a mystic and secondly, to know how to draw. These two models of rigour happened to me at the same time.
Salvador Dalí
Paranoiac-critical activity is an organizing and productive force of objective chance. Paranoiac-critical activity no longer considers surrealist phenomena and images by themselves but, on the contrary, as a coherent whole of systematic and significant relations.
Salvador Dalí
From the moment I arrived in Cadaqués [Summer of 1929] I was assailed by a resurgence of my childhood period. The six years of secondary school, the three years in Madrid and the trip I had just made to Paris, all totally faded into the background, while all the fantasies and representations of my childhood period came back to take victorious possession of my mind.
Salvador Dalí
Surrealism will at least have served to give experimental proof that total sterility and attempts at automatizations have gone too far and have led to a totalitarian system... Today's laziness and the total lack of technique have reached their paroxysm in the psychological signification of the current use of the college.
Salvador Dalí
When you are a genius, you do not have the right to die, because we are necessary for the progress of humanity..
Salvador Dalí
The essays in simulation of [Paul] Eluard and [Andre] Breton, Breton's recent poem-objects, the latest images of Rene Magritte, the "method" of the latest sculpture of Picasso and the theoretic and pictorial activity of Salvador Dali prove this need of concrete materialisation in current reality, of giving objective value on the real plane to the delirious unknown world of our irrational experiences. Against the remembrance of dreams and the virtual and impossible images of purely receptive states, "that can only be recounted", there are the physical facts of "objective" irrationality, with which one can already actually wound oneself.
Salvador Dalí
July 1952/the 27th/This morning an exceptional defecation: two small turds in the shape of a rhinoceros horns. Such a scanty stool worries me. I would have thought the champagne, so alien to my routine, would have had a laxative effect.
Salvador Dalí
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