Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.
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VINCENTE MINNELLI But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.
VINCENTE MINNELLI My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic des...
MARJANE SATRAPI The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.
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NAEEM KHAN My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But...
CLAIRE DENIS As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
MARK MOTHERSBAUGH My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
GYORGY LIGETI I have always been a fan of Salvador Dali, but Amrita Sher-Gil, who was an Indian-Hungarian painter,...
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KELLY JONES And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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ANTHONY BROWNE And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it?
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No Face... a pe...
DEYTH BANGER I was born in Seoul, South Korea; then I moved to New York City at the age of seventeen. In New York...
SUNG JIN PARK Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny.
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JANET EVANOVICH I wanted to study painting and become a painter, but I had a huge flip-over in my life when I was ab...
AKSEL HENNIE I was born and bred to be a great flirt.
CYBILL SHEPHERD I was imagining a long life of being a stone cold loser. Then I got a job, which was really nice, th...
MACKENZIE DAVIS I was primarily a painter, although I was classically trained in a wide spectrum of mediums.
JOEY SKAGGS I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way.
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CHRISTINA ENGELA It was more than a sporting event. It was a way of life against another way of life.
VINCE MANZE I did this movie about Salvador Dali a few years ago and had hair extensions and a little bob. That ...
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PAUL CEZANNE My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.
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EMILY BROWN Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
STEVEN WRIGHT My imagination was a great place to escape from all the anxiety and disapproval of my life... I had ...
PHILIP SCHULTZ I've always been conservative. I was born that way.
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SUE MILLER What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER I was build with bassically upon on a code... lie... what's a lie and so on and so on!?
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DEYTH BANGER I don't take drugs: I am drugs.
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CHE GUEVARA Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the pi...
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JESSICA STROUP Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.
BRAD HOLLAND Samuel McDermott or not, I was Ian McDermott, and the way I saw life was the way I'd live life.
MICHAEL HARMON I was born in Den Bosch, where the painter Hieronymus Bosch named himself after. And so I've alw...
FRANS DE WAAL When I was an adolescent, I abandoned my country at 23 years to come to Paris to know Andre Breton, ...
ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terribl...
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JAMES DEAN Cummings' career as a writer - and a painter - was as wobbly as his love life. He tried his hand...
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TREVOR RABIN After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I ha...
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PETER BERG My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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DAVID CARSON Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to tr...
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JOSEPHINE BAKER Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to b...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I was thrilled, it was a great way to finish it.
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NICOLAS CAGE It was a great way to finish.
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