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
Salvador Dali quotes about
nature mistake design
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
interesting provoking
To be interesting, one has to provoke.
mistake sacred rationalize
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.
communist painter
Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
life beautiful art
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
art serious knows
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
clever flower men
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.
paint masters draws
Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
land skins liberty
New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.
impossible easy
It is either easy or impossible.
dream wall eye
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.
profound inspire trying
I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
progress genius mankind
Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us
scandal causes
Happy is he who causes a scandal