Quotes by Salvador Dali

About Salvador Dali:

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marqués de Dalí de Pubol was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain.
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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 poli...

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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.

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It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

Salvador Dali

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipati...

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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

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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.

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

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

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Salvador Dali

Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.

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Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?

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The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

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

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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.

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Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

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The only difference between me and a madman is I'm not mad.

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La gente debería verse más como sus retratos y menos como en la vida real

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Author Bio

  • NameSalvador Dali
  • DescriptionSpanish surrealist painter
  • AliasesSalvador Dali; Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech; Salvador Dalì
  • BornMay 11, 1904
  • DiedJanuary 23, 1989
  • CountrySpain
  • ProfessionPainter; Sculptor; Writer; Actor; Artist; Film Director
  • WorksThe Persistence Of Memory; Christ Of Saint John Of The Cross; The Sacrament Of The Last Supper
  • AwardsOrder Of Isabella The Catholic; Legion Of Honour