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
sea baths paint
When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath
worry legs painful
I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed.
life art average
If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!
reality world delirium
Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality...
men metric-system metrics
God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
fear firsts canvas
I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
photography perspective different
The world of the cinema and of painting are very different; precisely, the possibilities of photography and the cinema reside in that unlimited fantasy which is born of things themselves... a piece of sugar can become on the screen larger than an infinite perspective of gigantic buildings.
women hair arms
An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
discovery fantasy faster
Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!