Salvador Dalí Quotes

[...] podía saborear con deleite esa voluptuosidad que es todo el lujo del amor y que consiste en poder dirigir descuidadamente la atención y la vista a otra parte, a la vez que se siente la apasionada proximidad del ser único, gracias al cual cada minuto es un trozo de paraíso, pero al cual la perversidad te ordena ignorar, sin dejar de mantenerlo atado como un perro; y ante el cual, sin embargo, estarías dispuesto a arrastrarte con la cobardía y los halagos de un verdadero perro, en cuanto estuvieras en peligro de perder a ese ser amado que hasta aquel punto fingías tratar con el inatento dandismo característico del sentimentalismo morboso.

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

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!

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.

It is difficult to hold the world's interest for more than half an hour at a time.. .I have been successful for twenty years, to the extent that papers publish the most incomprehensible new items of our time, sent by teletype: PARIS. Dali gave lecture at Sorbonne on Vermeer's paintings 'lacemaker' and the rhinoceros.. ..NEW YORK. Dali landed in New York dressed in a golden space-suit.

Every time I lose a little sperm I'm convinced I've wasted it. I always feel guilty afterwards.. .To start with, I'm not as impotent as all that.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating: It is either good or bad.

Nu eu sunt bufonul, ci societatea monstruos de cinică şi naiv de inconştientă care pretinde că este serioasă numai pentru a-şi ascunde mai bine nebunia. Eu, în schimb - nu sunt nebun.

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.

لاتخف من الكمال فلن تدركه

„Obaveštavajte me sigurno o svom radu, zasad su vaše slike isuviše zbrkane i nedostaje im pečat ličnosti. Radite! Radite! Treba sačekati razvoj vaših nesumnjivih kvaliteta. Nadam se da ću jednog dana moć da se vama pozabavim“ –pismo Pjera Leba, Pariz,1926

_ ماهي الموضة؟
_ الشيء الذي لم يكن موضة

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.

El termómetro del éxito es simplemente la envidia de los descontentos.