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
impossible easy
It is either easy or impossible.
inspirational funny witty
The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
artist enemy surrealism
Let my enemies devour each other.
time space watches
The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.
nature mistake design
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
mistake sacred rationalize
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.
morning awakening today
Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali.
life hipster epic
I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
art frustration doe
Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art
mean facts doe
The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
inspiring dream two
Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
dream reality one-day
One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.
art creativity confusion
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
photography vision shackles
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.