"Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision."
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"God is just another artist, like me."
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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 go further, in art, in life, in everything!"
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"[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'"
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"I don't need drugs. I am drugs."
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"Picasso is a communist. Neither am I."
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"Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead"
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"Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all."
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"Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being."
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"Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis."
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"For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful."
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"The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind."
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"Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear later... when Europe will have restored its traditional monarchies."
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"Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!"
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"When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath"
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"Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses."
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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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"It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures"
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