Top 100 Salvador's Quotes
#1. There is no pain, Javier," I assured him. "Not anymore. I want you to finish your name. I am more yours than I am Salvador's.
Karina Halle
#2. Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
Salvador Dali
#3. It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures
Salvador Dali
#4. The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
#6. I've seen many strange things in my work, my friend, but a wealthy lawyer who leaves everything to go write sonnets is not part of the repertoire.
-Ricardo Salvador
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#7. Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
Salvador Dali
#8. It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
Salvador Dali
#9. 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
#10. Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.
Salvador Dali
#12. The evidence is now clear that the majority of people coming across the border are not from Mexico. They're coming from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras. Those countries are the source of the people that are now coming in its majority.
Marco Rubio
#14. I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
Salvador Dali
#15. The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dali
#16. 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
#17. I started doing science when I was effectively 20, a graduate student of Salvador Luria at Indiana University. And that was - you know, it took me about two years, you know, being a graduate student with Luria deciding I wanted to find the structure of DNA; that is, DNA was going to be my objective.
James D. Watson
#18. 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.
Salvador Dali
#19. Children are my pet cause. I have a foster child in El Salvador, and whenever I'm home, I work for the Adam Walsh Foundation, which finds missing children. I also do some hospital visits and other things for the Make-a-Wish Foundation.
Jane Badler
#20. The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
Salvador Dali
#21. The arts which need interpretation are the arts of time
music and poetry
and not the arts of space
sculpture and painting.
Salvador De Madariaga
#22. Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!
Salvador Dali
#23. You cannot kill or steal from a man while he is asleep and heartbroken. While it is said that everything is fair in love an war, the dictum is nullified when both love and war occur simultaneously ...
Salvador Plascencia
#25. The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets
Salvador Dali
#26. I think there, there also had been just before I got to Honduras a rather spectacular capture of an arms shipment that from Nicaragua across Honduran test, territory destined for El Salvador and I think that some of that equipment had been also to Cuba and the Soviet bloc.
John Negroponte
#27. I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.
J. D. Pardo
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Antonio Bolivar Salvador has an incredible story because he's one of the last Ocaina people left. The Ocaina people are - and the Ocaina language is basically about to disappear in this generation. You know, there are very few people that speak it. And he's one of them.
Ciro Guerra
#31. Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.
Salvador Dali
#32. All of humanity's crimes,' Salvador said ... 'are only degrees of theft.
Miguel Syjuco
#33. In El Salvador, when neighbors were disappeared, tortured or killed, people doubted their own knowledge of the victims, and worried there must have been some secret guilt involved to deserve such punishment! That's how political terror succeeds.
Mimi Kennedy
#34. Fear and hatred are the legacy of Ronald Reagan. America's vision of peace and freedom [is being] blasted by the guns of the U.S. Navy in Lebanon, the guns of U.S. paratroopers in Grenada, and the guns of U.S. helicopters in Honduras and El Salvador.
Alan Cranston
#35. I have experience and I am employing it in the service of a Chilean road for Chile's problems. We always take advantage of experience wherever it comes from, but adapting it to our reality. I am putting it to use in a Chilean way, for the problems of Chile. We are not anyone's mental colonists.
Salvador Allende
#36. Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be "strangers in a strange land," who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt.
Salvador Minuchin
#37. 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
#38. You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.
Jennifer Esposito
#39. 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
#40. 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.
Salvador Dali
#41. El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans ... I have heard a single voice.
Dan Quayle
#42. 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
#43. Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.
Salvador Dali
#44. 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
#45. We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
Salvador Dali
#46. If you liked El Salvador, you're going to love Colombia. It's the same death squads, the same military aid, and the same whitewash from Washington.
Carlos Salinas De Gortari
#47. I will be your friend,' I said. 'I will go home to my mother's house the way I did when I skinned my knees as a little girl. I'll go and let myself be consoled by my roses, my palm trees, my enormous volcanoes in San Salvador. When you are old, maybe you'll come and see me someday.
Consuelo De Saint-Exupery
#48. There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me.
Salvador Dali
#49. The US has attacked countries like Grenada, Panama, Libya ... the list of victims of US terrorism is almost infinite. And the US government's participation in torture, whether in El Salvador, Guatemala, Chile ... is well-documented and widely known.
Assata Shakur
#50. El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras have all agreed to send additional consular officers from Guatemala, from Honduras, from El Salvador, send them to the U.S. border so that we can more quickly and humanely identify unaccompanied children and process their individual removal.
Joe Biden
#51. Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.
Salvador Dali
#53. 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 ...
Salvador Dali
#54. Therell always be some weird thing about eating four grapes before you go to bed, or drinking a special tea, or buying this little bean from El Salvador.
Richard Simmons
#55. And if we had learned anything from this story it was to be cautious of paper
to be mindful of its fragile construction and sharp edges, but mostly to be cautious of what is written on it.
Salvador Plascencia
#57. Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt.
Tom Robbins
#58. Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us
Salvador Dali
#60. Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
Salvador Dali
#61. And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.
Salvador Dali
#62. 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.
Salvador Dali
#64. I'm afraid of an extra face
in the mirror and sudden
nights with voices, the deep
certainty of things.
(from Parca)
Salvador Espriu
#65. This is an instrument in the hands of the people for fighting the fascist saboteurs, because the Chilean armed forces are a guarantee of constitutionality and integrity.
Salvador Allende
#66. I have my three brothers, and then I have my adopted sister from El Salvador, who is actually the oldest. My brother and I were already born, and then my parents adopted my sister from El Salvador during the war and had two more kids.
Carrie Coon
#67. 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
#68. The Popular Unity government represented the first attempt anywhere to build a genuinely democratic transition to socialism a socialism that, owing to its origins, might be guided not by authoritarian bureaucracy, but by democratic self-rule.
Salvador Allende
#69. I want to be known as a professional weirdo. There aren't many Salvador Dalis or Buckminster Fullers left. If I become popular enough, I can establish the next step for records.
Todd Rundgren
#70. I don't claim to know Israel. I don't speak Hebrew; my contacts are pretty limited. But I didn't know Vietnam; I didn't know Nicaragua, El Salvador or Honduras. It doesn't mean you can't reach your conclusions.
Norman Finkelstein
#71. Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
Salvador Dali
#72. Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it.
Salvador Dali
#73. 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
#74. I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me I will rise again in the people of El Salvador.
Oscar Romero
#75. Sometimes you're quite fortunate, being on the stage, getting to meet people like Salvador Dali.
Bryan Ferry
#78. Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
Salvador Dali
#79. 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
#80. I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
Salvador Dali
#81. I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War.
Kurt Vonnegut
#84. All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
Salvador Dali
#85. Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
Salvador Dali
#86. On December 4, 1972, President Salvador Allende of Chile told the United Nations General Assembly that his country would "no longer tolerate the subordination implied by having more than eighty percent of its exports in the hands of a small group of large foreign companies.
Stephen Kinzer
#88. The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
Salvador Dali
#90. Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
Salvador Dali
#92. He simply contemplated human realities from a divine perspective.
Salvador Bernal
#93. 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.
Salvador Dali
#94. 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.
Salvador Dali
#95. Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
Salvador Dali
#96. If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
Salvador Dali
#98. Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.
Salvador Dali
