Salvador Dalí
Master surrealist, Persistence of Memory
Most quoted
"The fact that I myself, at the moment of painting, do not understand my own pictures, does not mean that these pictures have no meaning; on the contrary, their meaning is so profound, complex, coherent, and involuntary that it escapes the most simple analysis of rational intuition."
— from The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí
"The fact that I myself, at the moment of painting, do not understand my own pictures, does not mean that these pictures have no meaning; on the contrary, their meaning is so profound, complex, coherent, and involuntary that it escapes the most simple analysis of logical intuition."
— from The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí
"I am painting pictures which make me die for joy, I am creating with an absolute naturalness, without the slightest aesthetic concern, I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly."
— from Letter to André Breton, 1929
All quotes by Salvador Dalí (305)
The universe is a giant anagram of my name.
I am the only one who knows the secret of my own painting.
The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
I am not a surrealist. I am a hyperrealist of the imaginary.
The future of art is in the rhinoceros horn.
Contemporaries of Salvador Dalí
Other Visual Artss born within 50 years of Salvador Dalí (1904–1989).