Have no fear of perfection; you will never reach it.
No tengas miedo de la perfección, nunca la alcanzarás.
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Salvador Dalí
Born in Figueras in 1904, Dali became Surrealism's most famous painter by rendering dreamscapes with photographic precision. The melting watches of The Persistence of Memory are among modern art's most recognized images.
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