Salvador Dali
19 quotes
"The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture."
"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."
"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."
"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."
"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality."
"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since."
"It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning."
"Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali."
"In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob."
"It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning."
"In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob."
"Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory."
"Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali."
"It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning."
"In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob."
"In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob."
"Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die."
"I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject rather does the person grow to look like his portrait."
"It is good taste and good taste alone that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning."