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" At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. "
Cook
Growing
Six
" Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making. "
Am
Making
I Am
" Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid. "
Bother
Avoid
You
" Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. "
Honesty
Art
Cheating
" Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali. "
Pleasure
Awake
Morning
" Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. "
Reach
Fear
You
" I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait. "
Portrait
Paint
Person
" I don't do drugs. I am drugs. "
Am
I Am
" I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous. "
Will
World
Enough
" In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob. "
Good
You
Respect
" Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums. "
Museums
Try
Something
" Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. "
Bird
Ambition
Intelligence
" I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it. "
Almost
Knee
Tired
" It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. "
Alone
Always
Creative
" Let my enemies devour each other. "
Enemies
Devour
Each
" Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory. "
Than
Glory
Less
" 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. "
Mistakes
Nature
Try
" Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. "
Personality
Part
Minute
" Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation. "
Character
Live
Society
" Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. "
Only
Destructive
Vision
" Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic. "
Take
I Am
Am
" 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. "
Memories
True
Difference
" 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. "
First
Idiot
Rose
" The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad. "
Difference
Mad
Madman
" There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. "
Think
Going
Days
" There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. "
Mad
I Am
Difference
" The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret. "
Always
Power
Been
" The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. "
Architecture
Terrifying
Art
" The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. "
Success Is
Jealousy
Merely
" Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. "
Imagination
Anything
Want
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