If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
SALVADOR DALIDo not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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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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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
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I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
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An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.
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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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Forever will be you and me.
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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
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Do not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.
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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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