Quote by Salvador Dali
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art wi

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. – Salvador Dali

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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali. – Salvador Dali

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Experience
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It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. – Salvador Dali

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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. – Vladimir Nabokov

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Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking. – Jerry Saltz

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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. – Honore de Balzac

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Art seduces, but does not exploit. – Mason Cooley

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