I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
SALVADOR DALIThe secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
-
-
Happy is he who causes a scandal.
SALVADOR DALI -
Do not be afraid of perfection – you will never attain it.
SALVADOR DALI -
I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
SALVADOR DALI -
I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
SALVADOR DALI -
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 -
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
SALVADOR DALI -
Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
SALVADOR DALI -
Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
SALVADOR DALI -
Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
SALVADOR DALI -
Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
SALVADOR DALI -
The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
SALVADOR DALI -
This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
SALVADOR DALI -
Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
SALVADOR DALI -
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.
SALVADOR DALI -
The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
SALVADOR DALI