Salvador Dali Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch.
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali
Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.
The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.
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.
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
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.
The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!
We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
Surrealism is not a movement. It is a latent state of mind perceivable through the powers of dream and nightmare.
The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.
Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision ...