The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
SALVADOR DALIThe reason some portraits don’t look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
-
-
The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
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 -
Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.
SALVADOR DALI -
I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
SALVADOR DALI -
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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 -
To be interesting, one has to provoke.
SALVADOR DALI -
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
SALVADOR DALI -
Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
SALVADOR DALI -
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 -
Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
SALVADOR DALI -
It is either easy or impossible.
SALVADOR DALI -
There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
SALVADOR DALI -
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
SALVADOR DALI -
Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
SALVADOR DALI