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
funny tired humor
I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
artist drug hallucinogens
Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
clever thinking artist
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
life hipster epic
I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
cheating art honesty
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
understanding might painting
If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
nonsense should
Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
confusion important anarchy
What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
habit revelations democratic
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
mind doubt genius
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.
forever genius live-forever
I'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die.
time space watches
The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.
two luck painter
The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali
eye men
Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future