57 quotes found
“Beauty should be edible, or not at all.”
“Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.”
“This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.”
“No es que yo sea bueno, es que los dems son tan malos que la comparacin se revela imposible.”
“Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy the joy of being Salvador Dal and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dal going to accomplish today?”
“The difference between false memories and true ones is thesame as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look themost real, the most brilliant.”
“Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health.However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several ...”
“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.”
“An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.”
“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
“The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.”
“I tried sex once with a woman and it was Gala. It was overated. I tried sex once with a man and that man was the famous juggler Frederico Garcia Lorca. It was very painful.”
“People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.”
“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”
“Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.”
“New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me, and that was young, virgin, and without drama, that of America. I traveled in Ame...”
“My mother's death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her... I could not resign myself to the loss of a being on whom I counted to make invisible t...”
“The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!”
“The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.”
“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. Ulti...”