My ambition, still and always, is to integrate the experiments of modern art with the great classical tradition.
~ Salvador Dali

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I started calling myself a genius to impress people, and I ended up being one.
~ Salvador Dali

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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 Dali

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No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.
~ Salvador Dali

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Let me learn only everything that others cannot teach me, that which only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!
~ Salvador Dali

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My painting is like an iceberg where only a tenth of its volume is visible.
~ Salvador Dali

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About my future I know nothing; I consider myself to be a great mystery.
~ Salvador Dali

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The surer and more devoid of surprises are your means, the more astonishing miracles you will realize.
~ Salvador Dali

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The skeleton is of the utmost importance. It is always the structure which matters and is all that remains after death.
~ Salvador Dali

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I can’t conceive of my vocation or obligations as living separate from my desires, because my vocation and obligations are the realization of my desires.
~ Salvador Dali

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