Salvador Dali Quotes
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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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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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Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
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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 politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?" Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.
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I'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die.
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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses.
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Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
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There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me.
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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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God is just another artist, like me.
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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
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Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!
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I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.
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Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
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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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People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
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If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.