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
mind doubt genius
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.
genius madness
Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius
sex men painful
I tried sex once with a woman and that woman was Gala. It was overrated. I tried sex once with a man and that man was the famous juggler Federico Garcia Lorca [the Spanish Surrealist poet]. It was very painful.
law order want
I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
real dna announcements
And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.
forever be-you
Forever will be you and me.
nonsense should
Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
beauty art nouveau-riche
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
art hungry thirsty
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.
people mystery painting
People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
art secret criminal-mind
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
funny tired humor
I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
creativity creative design
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
clerks watches painting
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.