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“Let my enemies devour each other.”
“What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.”
“There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.”
“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.”
“Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”
“It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.”
“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.”
“Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.”
“We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.”
“I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.”
“Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.”
“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
“I don't do drugs. I am drugs.”
“The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.”
“Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.”
“Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.”
“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.”