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)
I am a laboratory of ideas.
Painting is an infinite deception.
My morbidity led me to write poetry.
The chair is a throne for the erotic.
I love Gala more than my moustache.
Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of the dream.
I am attracted to the ephemeral.
The soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary and paranoiac-critical camembert of time and space.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
I used to be a Catholic, but now I am a surrealist.
The mustache serves as an aerial to my brain.
Te quiero.
Where is my watch?
The only difference between a madman and me is that I am not mad.
I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
The history of art is the history of revivals.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Dalí.
The true painter is one who can paint extraordinary scenes in the middle of an empty desert. The true painter is one who can patiently paint a pear in the middle of a roaring city.
Contemporaries of Salvador Dalí
Other Visual Artss born within 50 years of Salvador Dalí (1904–1989).