Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marqués de Dalí de Pubol, known as Salvador Dalí, was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain...
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth11 May 1904
CityFigueres, Spain
men metric-system metrics
God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
art vanity entertainment
Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.
worry legs painful
I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed.
men thinking earth
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.
drug needs
I don't need drugs. I am drugs.
art tragedy modern
This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
reality world delirium
Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality...
contradictory
Everything that is contradictory creates life
blood paint
It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures
sex accomplish-nothing self
Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
finished
I shall be so brief that I have already finished
wine secret taste
Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead
people age too-much
Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
morning joy wake-up
Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being Salvador Dalí - and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things this Salvador Dalí is going to accomplish today?