There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Salvador DaliRead
I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a desire to grasp the underlying truths of existence to harness them effectively.
Salvador Dali emphasizes the importance of understanding the deeper aspects and laws governing the world around us. By gaining insight into these hidden powers, one can better control their influence and utilize them for personal benefit and creativity. This quest for knowledge and mastery reflects a broader philosophical pursuit of wisdom that can lead to empowerment and artistic expression.
In practice
In a speech about innovation, one might quote Dali to emphasize the necessity of understanding the intricacies of technology.
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
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.
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!
The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.
Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know.
Be kind, for everyone is having a hard battle.
If you have the ball, you must make the field as big as possible, and if you don't have the ball, you must make it as small as possible.
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