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

Other quotes by Salvador Dali

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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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. – Salvador Dali

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Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen. – George Jean Nathan

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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Times malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day! – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust. – Alan Rickman

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Art

Art is pictures straight from the heart. – Ben, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999

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I know this is kind of corny, but we thought about renewing our vows again because I think my mom would really love it if we did that in Arkansas, where I came from. – Mary Steenburgen

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