Salvador Dali Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Morning, Creativity
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  Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

  Salvador Dali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

• Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Frustration, Doe

• The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

  Salvador Dali

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

• Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

  Salvador Dali

  Cheating, Art, Honesty

  "People" Magazine, September 27, 1976.

• Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

  Salvador Dali

  Life, Beautiful, Art

• 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 Dali

  Art, Serious, Knows

  "Diary of a Genius" by Salvador Dali, Creation Books, (p. 12), 1998.

• Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

  Salvador Dali

  Funny, Music, Sarcastic

• The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Secret, Criminal Mind

  Salvador Dali (2013). “The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí”, p.315, Courier Corporation

• The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

  Salvador Dali

  Beauty, Art, Nouveau Riche

• I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Portraits, Doe

  Quoted in Esar A Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951).

• You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Creativity, Confusion

• Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

  Salvador Dali

  Tattoo, Art, Personality

• If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Color, Drawing

  "Diary of a Genius". Book by Salvador Dali, p. 81, 1964.

• It is either easy or impossible.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Artist, Impossible

• Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Communist

• 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.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Character, People

• We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Hungry, Thirsty

• 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 Dali

  Life, Art, Average

• Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Vanity, Entertainment

• This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Tragedy, Modern

• Drawing is the honesty of the art.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Honesty, Drawing

  "People" Magazine, September 27, 1976.

• [My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Men, World

  "Diary of a Genius". Book by Salvador Dali, p. 9, 1964.

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