Top 100 Quotes About Salvador Dali
#1. Sometimes you're quite fortunate, being on the stage, getting to meet people like Salvador Dali.
Bryan Ferry
#2. 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.
Salvador Dali
#3. Being in the studio, it's more of a controlled environment, where you can be Salvador Dali and sit back and look at the painting. And you can go, 'Ah, you know what? Maybe a little bit more red over here ... maybe add some blue over here.' You can sit back and look at the painting.
Zakk Wylde
#4. Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt.
Tom Robbins
#5. From 17 to 21, I was obsessed by sport and art. In art, I loved the pre-Raphaelites and Rembrandt first. Then I discovered Salvador Dali, and it was like finding something I already knew.
Anthony Browne
#6. There's a peculiar porcelain bathtub in a field; almost as though it has been placed there for Salvador Dali to come and capture.
Tom Chesshyre
#7. If I'm doing a logo, I'll do it in black and white. Once the form is feeling right, only then do I start exploring the color palettes. A good example was the process of rebranding the Salvador Dali Museum. I did at least 100 versions in black and white.
David Carson
#8. Salvador Dali, lying on his deathbed in a stupor, is said to have been fed thousands of sheets of blank paper to sign for fake lithographs.
Peter Landesman
#9. If I had a Salvador Dali painting, I would cuddle it to sleep.
Mac Miller
#10. It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more.
Alice Cooper
#11. Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.
LL Cool J
#12. Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
Steven Wright
#13. I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.
John Le Carre
#14. I did this movie about Salvador Dali a few years ago and had hair extensions and a little bob. That was incredibly bizarre.
Robert Pattinson
#15. Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
Salvador Dali
#16. Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#17. Like Salvador Dali's paintings of watches melting in the sand, time wanders at its own curious pace whenever you're on vacation in a foreign country.
Laurie Nadel
#18. Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why.
Robert Plant
#19. I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me.
Jerry Hall
#21. I've got a very wide taste in art. I like Russian icon painters. I like Salvador Dali. It's like music. Sometimes you want to hear Led Zeppelin, and sometimes you want to hear Stravinsky. It just depends.
Peter Webber
#22. yes, i have dated Salvador Dali guy when i was a high school girl. he was a great lover. but i had to dump him because he stole my inspiration of bent clock*~* .... who cares...
Hiroko Sakai
#23. Playing Augusta is like playing a Salvador Dali landscape. I expected a clock to fall out of the trees and hit me in the face.
David Feherty
#24. Salvador [Dali] was brought up in Spain, a country colored by the legends of Hannibal, El Greco, and Cervantes. I was brought up in Ohio, a region steeped in the tradition of Coxey's Army, the Anti-Saloon League, and William Howard Taft.
James Thurber
#25. One thing which I can't stress enough is thaft OCD is completely nonsensical and will not listen to reason. This is one of the most frightening things about having it. I knew that t
o anyone I told, there are Salvador Dali paintings that make more sense.
Joe Wells
#27. Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it.
Salvador Dali
#28. Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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#30. 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.
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#31. And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.
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#32. Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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#33. Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us
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#34. I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties ...
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#36. Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.
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#37. If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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#38. Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
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#39. My mother's death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her ... I could not resign myself to the loss of a being on whom I counted to make invisible the unavoidable blemishes of my soul.
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#40. When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.
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#41. Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
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#43. The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
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#45. Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
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#46. All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
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#48. I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
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#49. Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
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#50. Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
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#51. 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.
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#52. The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets
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#53. Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!
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#54. The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
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#55. Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch.
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#56. The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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#57. I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
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#60. Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.
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#61. It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
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#62. Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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#64. Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
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#65. It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures
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#66. Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.
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#67. The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind.
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#68. The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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#70. 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?
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#72. There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me.
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#73. Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future
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#74. I shall be so brief that I have already finished
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#75. The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
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#77. At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
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#79. Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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#80. 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.
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#81. The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
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#82. I tried sex once with a woman and it was Gala. It was overated. I tried sex once with a man and that man was the famous juggler Frederico Garcia Lorca. It was very painful.
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#83. Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic
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#84. Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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#85. We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
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#86. I'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die.
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#87. 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.
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#88. The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.
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#90. Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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#92. There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
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#93. I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.
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#94. Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.
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#95. An unpredictable, faithful and objective hazard seems to have systematically singled out my life to make what are normally uneventful incidents violent, phenomenal and memorable.
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#96. [My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'
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#97. Think of my rants and posts as they would come from Edgar, Vincent, and Dali.
Solange Nicole
#98. Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
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#99. 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.
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#100. Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision ...
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