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
modern bother one-thing
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
tattoo art personality
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
ideas able usual
The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
clerks watches painting
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.
genius madness
Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius
artist world scandal
I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
law order want
I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
life too-short unnoticed
Life is too short to remain unnoticed
forever be-you
Forever will be you and me.
wine secret taste
The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets
telephones lobster restaurants
I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.
desire artistic fear-of-death
The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
wrinkles hair iron
Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!
creativity creative design
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.