Salvador Dali Quotes
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It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures.
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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
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Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
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There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me.
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I tried sex once with a woman and that woman was Gala. It was overrated. I tried sex once with a man and that man was the famous juggler Federico Garcia Lorca [the Spanish Surrealist poet]. It was very painful.
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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 do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.
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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
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When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.
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Eroticism, hallucinogenic drugs, nuclear science, Gaudi's Gothic architecture, my love of gold - there is a common denominator in all of it: God is present in everything. The same magic is at the heart of all things, and all roads lead to the same revelation: we are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.
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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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Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
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People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
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I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry.
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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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Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.
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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.
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All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!
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Forever will be you and me.