There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Salvador DaliRead
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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote highlights the power of imagination over technology.
Salvador Dali emphasizes the superiority of human imagination compared to man-made inventions like television. He suggests that through imagination, individuals can explore far beyond the physical limitations of reality, giving rise to endless possibilities and dreams that transcend the ordinary.
Themes
ImaginationCreativityDreamsArtReality
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to inspire creativity in art students.
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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!
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