Salvador Dalí: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 2)

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.”

“So little of what could happen does happen.”

“Let my enemies devour each other”

“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”

“Beauty should be edible, or not at all.”

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

“Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.”

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

“You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life”

“It's better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.”

“Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.”

“Forever will be you and me.”

“I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.”

“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.”

“When I paint, the Sea Roars
Others Splash about in the bath”