Photographic data... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which exist between reality and surreality. The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius
The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.
I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
I do not believe in my death.
Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.
Happy is he who causes a scandal
I will be sof brief, I have already finished.
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.
Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali
Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali.
There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't cook and will. There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
Drawing is the honesty of the art.
When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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