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
children heart perfection
Eroticism, hallucinogenic drugs, nuclear science, Gaudi's Gothic architecture, my love of gold - there is a common denominator in all of it: God is present in everything. The same magic is at the heart of all things, and all roads lead to the same revelation: we are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.
artist world scandal
I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
love respect artist
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
communist painter
Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
ideas able usual
The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
tattoo art personality
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
modern bother one-thing
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
scandal causes
Happy is he who causes a scandal
dream wall eye
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
profound inspire trying
I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
land skins liberty
New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.
clever thinking artist
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
paint masters draws
Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.