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
forever genius live-forever
I'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die.
hurt war artist
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
art character people
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
habit revelations democratic
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
telephones lobster restaurants
I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.
desire artistic fear-of-death
The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
love memories real
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
wine secret taste
The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets
artist drug hallucinogens
Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
understanding might painting
If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
cheating art honesty
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
life too-short unnoticed
Life is too short to remain unnoticed
wrinkles hair iron
Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!
art honesty drawing
Drawing is the honesty of the art.