Salvador Dali on art
Salvador Dali103 quotes“Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.”
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali 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 DaliSalvador Dali What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali 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 DaliSalvador Dali An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali
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