Salvador Dali Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• 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).

• The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.

  Salvador Dali

  Mean, Doe, Facts

• Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

  Salvador Dali

  Tattoo, Art, Personality

• People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

  Salvador Dali

  People, Painting, Mystery

• If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

  Salvador Dali

  Understanding, Might, Painting

  Salvador Dali (2013). “50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship”, p.15, Courier Corporation

• Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch.

  Salvador Dali

  Clerks, Watches, Painting

• All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

  Salvador Dali

  Knowledge, Science, Painting

• The world of the cinema and of painting are very different; precisely, the possibilities of photography and the cinema reside in that unlimited fantasy which is born of things themselves... a piece of sugar can become on the screen larger than an infinite perspective of gigantic buildings.

  Salvador Dali

  Photography, Perspective, Different

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