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
moments adore persons
There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me.
desire gates repulsion
Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
perfection
Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it.
museums trying stubborn
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.
serious doe ends
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?
differences mad facts
The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.
differences mad spouse
There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't cook and will. There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
chinese-revolution remember peasants
We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
sleep blood life-and-death
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.
contradictory
Everything that is contradictory creates life
sex accomplish-nothing self
Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
hungry thirsty concrete
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
finished
I shall be so brief that I have already finished
wine secret taste
Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead