Salvador Dalí Quotes

Spanish artist (1904–1989)

Salvador Dalí (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989) was a Spanish surrealist artist, born in Catalonia, Spain. He was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work and his exceptional way of life and expression.

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Native Name: Salvador Dalí i Domènech

Alternative Names: Dalí • Felip Jacint Domenech • Felip Jacint Domènech • Salvador Dali • Salvador Dali Domenech • Salvador Dali i Domenech • Salvador Dali y Domenech • Salvador Dalm y Domenech • Salvador Dalí Domènech • Salvador Dalí y Domènech • Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali y Domenech • Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domènech • Salvador Felip Jacint Dali Domenech • Salvador Felip Jacint Dalí Domènech • Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali • Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali Domenech • Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali y Domenech • Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí • Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí Domènech • Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domènech • Salvator Dali • Salvator Dalí

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People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

My mother's death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her... I could not resign myself to the loss of a being on whom I counted to make invisible the unavoidable blemishes of my soul.” — Salvador Dalí, The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí

The H-bomb is coming out of my intuitive and inspirationic command, for my spirit speaketh and speaketh psychologically, intuitively, and inspirationally and guides the destinies of the nations of the earth.. .My Assumption is the opposite of the atomic bomb. Instead of disintegration of matter, we have the integration, the reconstitution of the real and glorious body of the Virgin in the heavens.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

When I have at last become like a statue through the exacerbation of my ego which has led me to this ultimate sclerosis.. .Then and only then will I at last be able to set this statue up and come out of myself into the crowd to go and see the world. No one will notice anything because they will all be looking at the statue and I will be able to go about, free at last.. .It's then that I shall realize my eternal dream: to become a newspaper reporter!

I'm too intelligent to be a good painter; to be a good painter you've got to be a bit stupid - with the exception of Velázquez who is a genius.

- September 1952/the2nd/Again this morning, while I was on the toilet, I had a truly remarkable piece of insight. My bowel movement, by the way, was perfectly exceptional, smooth and odourless.

_ ماهي الموضة؟
_ الشيء الذي لم يكن موضة

Just now I'm painting a beautiful woman, smiling, burnt to a crisp, with feathers of all colors, held up by a small die of burning marble; the die is in turn held up by a little puff of smoke, churned and quite; in the sky there are asses with parrot-heads, grasses and beach sand, all about to explode, all clean, incredible objective..

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

Dalí is one marvellous painter, but in living times he's one marvellous clown — more interesting for everybody.

"Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health.
However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?"
Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches."

إن الأخطاء في معظم الأحيان ذات طبيعة مقدسة ، لا تحاول تصحيحها! بل على العكس حاول أن تفهمها بدقة ثم حاول أن تصقلها

I don't do drugs I am drugs

The true painter must be able, before an infinite panorama, to limit himself to reproducing a single ant.