The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
SALVADOR DALIMany people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
More Salvador Dali Quotes
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When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.
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I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache – it is better for the health.
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An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?” Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.
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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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I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
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Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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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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The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.
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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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I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
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Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
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Sometimes I spit on my mother’s portrait for pleasure.
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