There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Salvador DaliRead
I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Embracing the unsettling aspects of life can become tiresome when they don't bring value or creativity.
In this quote, Salvador Dali expresses the idea that while we may confront and engage with unsettling or ugly aspects of life, such interactions can become exhausting if they fail to inspire or provoke thought. Dali, known for his surrealistic art, suggests that beauty and creativity ultimately offer more fulfillment than dwelling on the unpleasant or unattractive elements of existence.
Themes
ArtCreativityUglinessBeautyLife
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion about the challenges artists face, one might quote Dali to emphasize the relationship between beauty and creativity.
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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!
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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
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All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
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