Salvador Dali

Artist

1904-05-11 – 1989-01-23

Salvador Dali was a Spanish surrealist artist known for technically precise and dreamlike imagery, including The Persistence of Memory. He also worked in film, design, and sculpture. His work made him one of the most recognizable figures of Surrealism.

Quotes by Salvador Dali

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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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
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Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
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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 secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
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I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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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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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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It's either easy or impossible.
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There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
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