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Salvador Dali [1904-1989] Spanish

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Artist (with paintings), Painter
Surrealism

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marqués de Dalí de Púbol, known as Salvador Dalí, was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain.

Art, Good, Power, Society, Age, Alone, Architecture, Beauty, Dreams, Experience, Fear, Imagination, Intelligence, Jealousy, Money, Morning, Nature, Respect, Success, War

Quote	Tags	Rank
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.	Intelligence	101
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.	Art, Good	102
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.		103
The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.		104
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.	Nature	105
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.	Experience, Morning	106
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.	Fear	107
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.	Jealousy, Success	108
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.	Age	109
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.	Art, Good	110
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.		111
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.		112
I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.		113
I don't do drugs. I am drugs.		114
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.	War	115
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.		116
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.	Imagination	117
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.		118
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.	Dreams	119
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.		120
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.	Power	121
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.	Respect, Society	122
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.	Alone, Power	123
Let my enemies devour each other.		124
I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.		125
Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.		126
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.	Art	201
Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.		202
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.		203
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.	Society	204
Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.	Money	205
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.	Architecture, Art, Beauty	206
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.		207
We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.		208

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