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
moments adore persons
There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me.
crazy jewels mustache
Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?" Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.
money glory saving-money
Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
sleep blood life-and-death
The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind.
believe
I do not believe in my death.
sea baths paint
When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath
desire gates repulsion
Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
hero people influential
Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses.
littles doe happens
So little of what could happen does happen.
should hashish
Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
eye men
Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future
art color drawing
If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.
two luck painter
The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali
spiritual drug
I don't take drugs: I am drugs.