"I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous."
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"Beauty should be edible, or not at all."
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"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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"Happy is he who causes a scandal"
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"I shall be so brief that I have already finished."
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"I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power."
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"Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it."
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"An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms."
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"Whatever happens, my audience mustn't know whether I am spoofing or being serious; and likewise I mustn't know either. I am in a constant interrogation; when does the deep and philosophically valid Dali begin, and where does the looney and preposterous Dali end?"
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"Eroticism, hallucinogenic drugs, nuclear science, Gaudi's Gothic architecture, my love of gold - there is a common denominator in all of it: God is present in everything. The same magic is at the heart of all things, and all roads lead to the same revelation: we are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind."
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"Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you."
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"I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly."
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"Everything that is contradictory creates life"
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"What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it."
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"Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation."
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"Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali."
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"Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality."
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"Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most."
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"I'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die."
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"Drawing is the honesty of the art."
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