If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
SALVADOR DALIIf you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
SALVADOR DALII do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I’m never served a cooked telephone.
SALVADOR DALIThere comes a moment in every person’s life when they realise they adore me.
SALVADOR DALIPeople love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
SALVADOR DALIA true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
SALVADOR DALIWe are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
SALVADOR DALII am the Don Quixote of unreality.
SALVADOR DALIRepulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
SALVADOR DALIAnything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
SALVADOR DALIAn elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
SALVADOR DALIKnowing how to look is a way of inventing.
SALVADOR DALIMy art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.
SALVADOR DALIWhat is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
SALVADOR DALIGod invented man, and man invented the metric system.
SALVADOR DALISometimes I spit on my mother’s portrait for pleasure.
SALVADOR DALIHave no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
SALVADOR DALI