I leave you the 100 best Salvador Dalí phrases , A painter, sculptor and Spanish writer born in 1904 and died in 1989.
He is considered one of the greatest exponents of surrealism, his megalomaniac and narcissistic tendency attracted both good and bad criticism comparable to those attracted to his art.
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1-Every morning when I wake up, I once again experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dalí.
2-Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
3-A great wine requires a madman to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to do it, and a lover to drink it.
4-I'm not strange. I'm just not normal.
5-There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
6-A true artist is not the one who inspires, but who inspires others.
7-I do not take drugs. I am a drug.
8-Do not fear perfectly, you will never reach it.
9-I think the moment is near when by a method of active and paranoid thinking, it is possible to systematize the confusion and contribute to the total discredit of the world of reality.
10-It has to create confusion in a systematic way, thus releasing creativity. Everything that is contradictory creates life.
11-One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have called 'reality' is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.
12-Surrealism is destructive, but only destroys what it considers to be chains that limit our vision.
13-Give me two hours a day of activity, and I will follow the other twenty-two in a dream.
14-The fact that I do not understand what my paintings mean while I'm painting them does not imply that they have no meaning.
15-Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. The accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically is sublimated in the work of art.
16-It's easy or impossible.
17-Let my enemies devour one another.
18-The only difference between a madman and me is that I'm not crazy.
19-Knowing how to look is a way to invent.
20-It is not necessary for the public to know if I am joking or if I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it.
21-Mistakes are almost always of a sacred character. Never try to correct them. On the contrary, rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After this, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
22-At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven he wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been steadily growing ever since.
23-I do not paint a portrait so that it resembles the subject, but rather that the person grow to resemble his portrait.
24-The thermometer of success is simply the envy of the discontented.
25-To be interesting, one has to provoke.
26-Those who do not want to imitate anything, do not produce anything.
27-You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst thing for creativity. Dalí spent two months in jail in Spain, and those two months were the most fun and happy of my life. Before my period of incarceration, I was always nervous, anxious. I did not know if I wanted to paint, or maybe make a poem, or go to the movies or the theater, or conquer a girl or play with the boys. People put me in jail and my life became divine. Tremendous!
28-What matters is to sow confusion, not to eliminate it.
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman with a rose was obviously a poet; The first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
30-Geniuses must never die, the progress of humanity depends on us.
31-There's only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I'm crazy.
32-Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do what you like; Everyone will respect it.
33-New skin, a new earth! And a land of freedom, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.
34-Everything changes me, but nothing changes me.
35-I'm doing things that inspire me with deep emotion and I'm trying to paint with honesty.
36-Happy is the one who causes a scandal.
37-Do not worry about being modern. Unfortunately, it is the only thing that, whatever it does, can not be avoided.
38. Painting is an infinitely tiny part of my personality.
39-Picasso is a painter, like me; Picasso is Spanish, like me; Picasso is a communist, I am not.
40-The true painter must be able to have, with the most unusual things, the most unusual ideas.
Just as it surprises me that a bank clerk never eats a check, I am also surprised that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch.
42-People love the mystery, and that's why they love my paintings.
43. When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is no doubt that he is in error.
44-Eroticism, hallucinogenic drugs, nuclear science, Gaudí's gothic architecture, my love of gold... there is a common denominator in all of this: God is present in everything. The same magic is at the heart of all things, and all the ways lead to the same revelation: we are the children of God, and the whole universe tends towards the perfection of humanity.
45-The genius has to pass above the madness and the madness above the genius.
46. In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing to give, if you possess a great talent, early in your youth, a hard kick to the right shin of the society you love. After that, be a snob.
47-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 García Lorca (the Spanish surrealist poet). It was very painful.
48-It will always be you and me.
49-Drawing is the honesty of art.
50-And now Watson and Crick's ad on DNA. This is for me the real proof of God's existence.
51-I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and the laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
52-The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic feelings.
53-The difference between false and true memories is the same as for jewels: it is always false that seems most real, the most brilliant.
54-The knower does not drink wine, but knows its secrets.
55-Life is too short to go unnoticed.
56-It is good taste and only good taste, which has the power to sterilize and is always the first obstacle to any creative operation.
57. Progressive art can help people to learn not only about the objective forces at work, the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their inner life. Ultimately, it can push people toward social emancipation.
58. Wars have never hurt anyone except those who die.
59-The terrifying and consumable beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
60-Democratic societies are not apt for the publication of thunderous revelations like the ones I have the habit of doing.
"Take me, I'm the drug; Take me, I'm hallucinogenic.
62-Drawing is the honesty of technique. There is no possibility of cheating. Is good or bad.
63-Beauty must be edible, or nothing at all.
"I'm going to live forever." Geniuses do not die.
65-The two greatest blows of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dalí.
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.
67. Man can not change or escape from time. The eye sees the present and the future.
68-Very little of what could happen happens.
"I think the sweetest freedom for a man on earth is to be able to live, if he likes, without the need to work.
70-There comes a moment in the life of every person in which he realizes that he adores me.
71-Someone like me, who pretends to be a real madman, living and organized with Pythagorean precision...
We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a revolution of peasants but of the extreme right.
73-Dali was a Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.
74. Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy, the joy of being Salvador Dalí, and wonder in ecstasy: What wonderful things will this Salvador Dalí do today?
75 -If I'm going to be anything more than average, if someone is going to remember me, then I have to go further, in art, in life, in everything!
76. All my knowledge of both science and religion, I incorporate them in the classical tradition of my paintings.
77-The reason some portraits do not look faithful to reality is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
78. The true painter is one who is able to paint extraordinary scenes in the middle of an empty desert. The true painter is one who is able to patiently paint a pear surrounded by the tumults of history.
79-There are only two bad things that can happen in life, to be Pablo Picasso or not to be Salvador Dalí.
"I'm never alone. I have the habit of always being with Salvador Dalí. Believe me, this is a permanent party.
"I will be a genius, and the world will admire me. Perhaps I will be despised and misunderstood, but I will be a genius, a great genius, because I am sure of it.
82. This great tragedy we call modern art.
83-It is mainly with his blood, Gala that I paint my pictures.
84-The problem with the youth of today is that one is no longer part of it.
85-We all hunger and thirst for concrete images.
God is just another artist, like me.
"I'm going to be so brief that I'm done."
"To like money as I like it is nothing less than mystical. Money is a glory.
Many people do not turn eighties because they try too hard to stay in their forties.
90-Cannibalism is one of the most obvious manifestations of tenderness.
"I think I'm a better writer than a painter, and I agree with my father." The important thing about my writing is not the style, nor the syntax, nor the discursive resources. The important thing about my writing is simply what I say, and the day will come when that will be accepted.
-It's funny, I'm more interested in talking or being in contact with people who think the opposite of what I think, than of those who think the same as I think.
"Let's talk about Dali, even for good."
"The clown is not me, but this society so monstrously cynical and unconsciously naive that plays a role of seriousness to disguise its madness.
95. Today, the taste for defect is such that only imperfections and, above all, ugliness seem to be great. When a Venus resembles a toad, contemporary pseudo aesthetes exclaim: It is strong, it is human!
96. Each of the two halves is exactly joined to the other half, just as Gala was united with me... Everything opens and closes and interrelates with precision.
97. While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in the other.
98-I use the words you've taught me. If they do not mean anything, show me others. Or let me shut up.
99-A painting is a handmade photograph.
100-I think life should be a continuous party.