"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot."
— Salvador Dalí

January 1, 1970

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Quote from Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp (1987) by Pierre Cabanne, in a preface written by Dalí in January 1968 and translated by Albert Field, p. 13