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surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989)

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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

– Salvador Dali

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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

– Salvador Dalí

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It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

– Salvador Dali

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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.

– Salvador Dali

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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

– Salvador Dali

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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

– Salvador Dali

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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.

– Salvador Dali

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The madman and the wise man are very similar, the only difference is that the wise man knows that he is crazy.

– Salvador Dali

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Better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt.

– Salvador Dali

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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

– Salvador Dalí

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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

– Salvador Dalí

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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

– Salvador Dali

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Have no fear of perfection -- you will never reach it.

– Salvador Dali

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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 Dalí

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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

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The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

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The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad

– Salvador Dali

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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

– Salvador Dalí

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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.

– Salvador Dalí

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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 Baghdad's of his dreams to rise from the dust.

– Salvador Dalí

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