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
chinese-revolution remember peasants
We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
writing doubt lions
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...
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.
beautiful ugly looks
For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
artist like-me
God is just another artist, like me.
contradictory
Everything that is contradictory creates life
blood paint
It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures
youth-of-today today youth
The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.
knowing way looks
Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
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
drug needs
I don't need drugs. I am drugs.