Salvador Dalí Quotes

امتلأ اليوم برغبة حارقة ولذيذة تدفعني لاتفوق على نفسي فعدم الرضا الجليل عو علامة ان شيئًا ينمو داخل روحي سيمنحني رضا كبير

_ ماهي الموضة؟
_ الشيء الذي لم يكن موضة

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.

I am not strange. I am just not normal.

I have always been an anarchist and a monarchist.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

What is an elegant woman? An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and who has no hair under her arms.

Ever since the French revolution there has developed a vicious, cretinizing tendency to consider a genius (apart from his work) as a human being more or less the same in every sense as other ordinary mortals. This is wrong. And if this is wrong for me, the genius of the greatest spiritual order or our day, a true modern genius, it is even more wrong when applied to those who incarnated the almost divine genius of the Renaissance, such as Raphael.

If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.

July 1952/the 27th/This morning an exceptional defecation: two small turds in the shape of a rhinoceros horns. Such a scanty stool worries me. I would have thought the champagne, so alien to my routine, would have had a laxative effect. (DG p. 59)

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

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

One might think that through ecstasy we would have access to a world as far from reality as that of the dream. – The repugnant can become desirable, affection cruelty, the ugly beautiful, faults qualities, qualities black miseries.

მე მექნება ბოლოებში წაწვეტებული, იმპერიალისტური, ზერაციონალისტური, ვერტიკალური მისტიციზმის, და ვერტიკალური ესპანური სინდიკატების მსაგავსად ზეცისკენ აშვერილი ულვაშები

'Up there!'. Wonderful words! All my life has been dominated by these antagonisms: high and low. In my childhood I tried desperately to be high up.