Salvador Dali Quotes
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New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.
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I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties.
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Whatever happens, my audience mustn't know whether I am spoofing or being serious; and likewise I mustn't know either. I am in a constant interrogation; when does the deep and philosophically valid Dali begin, and where does the looney and preposterous Dali end?
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[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'
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Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.
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I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.
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I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
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Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.
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I'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die.
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Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
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Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.
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The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
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The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments.
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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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I will be sof brief, I have already finished.
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Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
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Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
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It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures.
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Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.
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Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.
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Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear later... when Europe will have restored its traditional monarchies.