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
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.
girl creativity boys
You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity. You know, Dali spent two months in jail in Spain, and these two months were the most enjoyable and happy in my life. Before my jail period, I was always nervous, anxious. I didn't know if I should make a drawing, or perhaps make a poem, or go to the movies or the theatre, or catch a girl, or play with the boys. The people put me in jail, and my life became divine. Tremendous!
art creativity confusion
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
art morning creativity
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
differences mad spouse
There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't cook and will. There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
fear firsts canvas
I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
differences mad facts
The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.
serious doe ends
Whatever happens, my audience mustn't know whether I am spoofing or being serious; and likewise I mustn't know either. I am in a constant interrogation; when does the deep and philosophically valid Dali begin, and where does the looney and preposterous Dali end?
photography lenses unexpected
Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
mean reality osmosis
Photographic data... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which exist between reality and surreality. The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
discovery fantasy faster
Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!
photography perspective different
The world of the cinema and of painting are very different; precisely, the possibilities of photography and the cinema reside in that unlimited fantasy which is born of things themselves... a piece of sugar can become on the screen larger than an infinite perspective of gigantic buildings.
beautiful ugly looks
For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
women hair arms
An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.