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
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.
reality world delirium
Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality...
real precision madmen
Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision ...
love memories real
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
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.
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.
believe reality confusion
I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality.
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!
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.