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
people effort true-life
The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
people age too-much
Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
people needs littles
Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.
hero people influential
Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses.
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.
people mystery painting
People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
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.