The secret, the best-kept secret is that the most famous painter in the world, which I am, does not yet know how to go about painting.
~ Salvador Dali

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I do not understand why, when I ask for a grilled lobster in a restaurant, I am never served a cooked telephone.
~ Salvador Dali

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The only difference between a madman and myself is that I am not mad!
~ Salvador Dali

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

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