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
art communist
Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
hungry thirsty concrete
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
life art average
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!
knowledge painting tradition
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
men renaissance renaissance-man
Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.
art men world
[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'
museums trying stubborn
Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
men contradictory paradoxical
[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.
real precision madmen
Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision ...
chinese-revolution remember peasants
We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
artist helping modern
Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.
mother portraits sometimes
Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.
people needs littles
Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.
finished
I will be sof brief, I have already finished.