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 genius, and I am not afraid to be misunderstood.
The only way to be truly alive is to be truly passionate.
I am a surrealist, but I am also a mystic. I believe in the visible, but I also believe in the invisible.
The only thing I fear is not being able to dream.
I am a king, and my crown is my imagination.
The only way to be truly great is to be truly daring.
I am not a human. I am a myth.
The only thing I love more than Gala is my art.
I am a genius, and I am not afraid to be controversial.
The only way to be truly original is to be truly insane.
I am a surrealist, but I am also a scientist. I believe in the irrational, but I also believe in the rational.
The only thing I fear is not being able to shock.
I am a king, and my scepter is my brush.
The only way to be truly immortal is to be truly unforgettable.
I am not a man. I am a phenomenon.
The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dalí.
I am not interested in chaos, I am interested in the organization of chaos.
The secret of my influence has always been that it is an influence of the imagination.
I believe in general in the future of the irrational, in the future of the delirious, in the future of the paranoiac, in the future of the surrealist.
Contemporaries of Salvador Dalí
Other Visual Artss born within 50 years of Salvador Dalí (1904–1989).