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
drug
I do not take drugs. I am drugs.
communist painter
Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
paint masters draws
Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
impossible easy
It is either easy or impossible.
profound inspire trying
I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
scandal causes
Happy is he who causes a scandal
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.
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!
nonsense should
Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
habit revelations democratic
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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.
chinese-revolution remember peasants
We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.