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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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. Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings. 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.” Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. 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. There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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