Quotes by Salvador Dali - Page 3

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.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Funny
Work
Age
Ambition
Seven
Six
Wanted
Witty
Since
Cook
Napoleon
Steadily
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Men
Cheeks
Clever
Compare
Flower
Idiot
Poet
Rose
Young
Woman
Man Woman Young
Obviously
Possibly
Repeat
Young Woman
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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.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Men
Needs
Thinking
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Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Accomplish Nothing
Self
Sex
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One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Dream
One Day
Reality
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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.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Design
Creative
Creativity
Good Taste
Taste
Handicap
Possesses
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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.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Doubt
Mind
Sound
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If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!
Salvador Dali / Painter
Art
Life
Average
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It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Art
Knows
Serious
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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.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Hero
Influential
People
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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.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Art
Abstract
Abstract Art
Concrete
Hungry
One Thing
Thirsty
Virginity
Exact
Images
Restore
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Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Clerks
Painting
Watches
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The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Love
Brilliant
Jewels
Memories
Real
Difference
False
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I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Legs
Painful
Worry
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The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Blood
Life And Death
Sleep
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Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Morning
Awakening
Today
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There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't cook and will. There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Differences
Mad
Spouse
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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.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Littles
Needs
People
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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.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Attempting
Classic
Museums
Purpose
Subversion
Surrealism
Trying
Works
Complete
Solid
Necessary
Purposes
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I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Believe
Confusion
Reality
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Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being Salvador Dalí - and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things this Salvador Dalí is going to accomplish today?
Salvador Dali / Painter
Morning
Joy
Wake Up
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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.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Art
Color
Drawing
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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.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Nature
Design
Contrary
Mistake
Rationalize
Sacred
Understand
After
Almost
Mistakes
Try
Possible
Correct
On The Contrary
Thoroughly
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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.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Men
Painful
Sex
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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.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Doubt
Lions
Writing
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Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art
Salvador Dali / Painter
Art
Doe
Frustration
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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.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Government
Europe
Habit
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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.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Love
Respect
Acquire
Artist
Great Talent
Lasting
Order
Snob
Talent
Youth
Love Good Respect
Good Thing
Possess
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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Art
Smile
Character
Emancipation
People
Progressive
Progressive Society
Assist
Work Art Society
Forces
Intensely
Interior
Objective
Propel
Toward
Ultimately
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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?
Salvador Dali / Painter
Doe
Ends
Serious
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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.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Dream
Dust
Eye
Imagine
Inaccessible
Order
Pierce
Regions
Television
Wall
Rise
Apparatus
Seen
Cause
Eyes
Planetary
Shut
Walls
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Photographic data... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which exist between reality and surreality. The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Mean
Osmosis
Reality
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The world of the cinema and of painting are very different; precisely, the possibilities of photography and the cinema reside in that unlimited fantasy which is born of things themselves... a piece of sugar can become on the screen larger than an infinite perspective of gigantic buildings.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Different
Perspective
Photography
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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.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Children
Heart
Perfection
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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.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Crazy
Jewels
Mustache
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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.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Average
Giving
Teaching
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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!
Salvador Dali / Painter
Hair
Iron
Wrinkles
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You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity. You know, Dali spent two months in jail in Spain, and these two months were the most enjoyable and happy in my life. Before my jail period, I was always nervous, anxious. I didn't know if I should make a drawing, or perhaps make a poem, or go to the movies or the theatre, or catch a girl, or play with the boys. The people put me in jail, and my life became divine. Tremendous!
Salvador Dali / Painter
Girl
Boys
Creativity
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