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
life normal strange
I am not strange. I am just not normal.
life happiness happy
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
drug
I do not take drugs. I am drugs.
photography vision shackles
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
inspiring dream two
Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
communist painter
Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
life beautiful art
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
clever flower men
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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.
land skins liberty
New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.
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.
progress genius mankind
Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us
scandal causes
Happy is he who causes a scandal