There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Salvador DaliRead
If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!
Interpretation
What this quote means
Striving for greatness requires going beyond the norm in all aspects of life.
Salvador Dali emphasizes the importance of pushing beyond average levels to achieve greatness and leave a lasting impact. He believes that by going further in one's pursuits—be it in art, life, or any endeavor—one can secure a memorable legacy and stand out in the world.
Themes
AverageGreatnessArtLifePursuit
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can inspire artists at a gallery opening to challenge themselves.
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All quotes →Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?" Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.
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Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!
Salvador DaliRead
The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.
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You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
Salvador DaliRead
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
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