54 result(s) for Salvador Dali Quotes.
"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them."
"Beauty should be edible, or not at all."
"I am not strange, I am just not normal."
"Let my enemies devour each other."
"Surrealism is the symbolic language of the spiritual world."
"It is not necessary for the painter to be a philosopher, but it is necessary for him to be a genius."
"Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali."
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"I don't paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait."
"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them, on the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them."
"I am that which you cannot hear, see or touch, but without me, you would be nothing."
"I don't do anything. I am only an artist."
"Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being Salvador Dali - and I ask myself in rapture, 'What wonderful things is this renowned Surrealist going to accomplish today?'"
"I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait."
"What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to triumph?"
"Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreaming."
"Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic."
"One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams."
"Give me the child until he is seven and I'll give you the man."
"Surrealism is not a movement. It is a latent state of mind perceivable through the powers of dream and nightmare."
"Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being Salvador Dali - and I ask myself in rapture, what wonderful things is this Dali going to accomplish today?"
"Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were sure of finding shirts."
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"Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory."
"It's not necessary for the public to know whether I'm joking or whether I'm serious, just as it's not necessary for me to know it myself."
"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."
"A true artist is not one who is inspired but one who inspires others."
"Give me the child until he is seven and I'll show you the man."
"I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas."
"A true artist is not one who is inspired, but who inspires others."
"You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free."
"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing."
"Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second."
"Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being Salvador Dali - and I ask myself in rapture, What wonderful things is this famous painter going to accomplish today?"
"Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed."
"There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad."
"If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it."
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"Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision."
"Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams."
"I don't do drugs. I am drugs."
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad."
"Have no fear of perfection – you'll never reach it."
"It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself."
"Give me the child until he is seven and I will give you the man."
"A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others."
"What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it."
"I am not strange. I am just not normal."
"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."
"Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts."
"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."
"Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy – the joy of being Salvador Dali – and I ask myself in rapture, what wonderful things is this Dali going to accomplish today?"
"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."
"It is not what you are, nor what you have been, but what you can be."
"Surrealism is destructive, but it annihilates only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision."
"I do not take drugs. I am drugs."
"The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous."
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