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Salvador Dalí — Portrait after a picture by Carl Van Vechten (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Salvador Dalí

Spanish artist

1904–1989

6 quotes.

I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.
Diary of a Genius (1964), p. 79
- Freedom
- Work
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.
Diary of a Genius (1964), p. 12
- Humor
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Quote from People, 27 September 1976
- Art
What is an elegant woman? An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and who has no hair under her arms.
In The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí—first publication in 1942
- Comedy
- Women
Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dalí, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dalí.
Diary of a Genius (Journal d’un génie, 1964)
- Pride
Ever since the French revolution there has developed a vicious, cretinizing tendency to consider a genius (apart from his work) as a human being more or less the same in every sense as other ordinary mortals.
Diary of a Genius (1964), p. 1
- Genius

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