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I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.

— Salvador Dalí Diary of a Genius (1964)

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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

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An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and who has no hair under her arms.

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It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

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