Salvador Dali Surrealism Quotes

#1. Donald Goellnicht. The Poet-Physician: Keats and Medical Science. University of Pittsburgh Press: Pittsburgh, 1984,

Stephen Cope

#2. People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

Salvador Dali

#3. 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

#4. I assumed the amount wouldn't be detectable. I also didn't feel that I had done anything wrong.

Patrik Sinkewitz

#5. Surrealism is not a movement. It is a latent state of mind perceivable through the powers of dream and nightmare.

Salvador Dali

#6. Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.

Tao Okamoto

#7. Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#8. Dancing is so wonderful. Once they start the music, your whole day, if it's been rotten, seems to melt away. You get carried away in the tune that you're moving to. It's a marvelous catharsis, to be able to get on top and tap dance.

Donald O'Connor

#9. I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.

Salvador Dali

#10. Annie Taliaferro had that hammerhead look about her, like a breachy range cow, or a bunch-quitting steer.

Clifton Adams

#11. Hence? My habit of reading more than I socialized made me use odd, awkward words without thinking.

April Genevieve Tucholke

#12. I move my hand lower. His eyes drift shut. Lower. He lets out a groan. And then I touch it. "Shit," he breathes. "Penis," I squeak.

Jay McLean

#13. So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

Minoru Yamasaki

#14. Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Salvador Dali

#15. 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.

Salvador Dali

#16. The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

Salvador Dali

#17. Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!

Salvador Dali

#18. but its most important characteristic was an ability to analyze the emotional beats of a movie without any of its members themselves getting emotional or defensive.

Ed Catmull

#19. I'm loath to do interviews. What comes out is generally not what I meant or thought I was saying or thought they were asking.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

#20. Gloucestershire police must be the envy of the human rights-abusing cop world. From Turkey to Indonesia they will say, 'Kidnapping peace protestors! How did they get away with that one?'

Mark Thomas