I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
SALVADOR DALIIt 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.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
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Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
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When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
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Forever will be you and me.
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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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Right now I’m the greatest. I don’t say this through vanity. It’s just that the rest are so bad.
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache – it is better for the health.
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The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.
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Since man’s highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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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.
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It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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