Salvador Dalí

(1904 - 1989) was a

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  • "Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."
    • Source: People, Sep 27 1976

  • "In le subconscious you fuck ugly people, never beautiful, because la libido always desires something repulsive."
    • Source: Exposure, Oct 1990 (from an interview originally conducted by Victor Bockris in 1974)

  • "I like it, le murder, because this is courage. It is anti-bourgeois. Le murder is closer to heaven, because after becoming rrrremords de conscience, one prays, one opens le sky, and le angels say, “Good morning!”"
    • Source: Exposure, Oct 1990 (from an interview originally conducted by Victor Bockris in 1974)

  • "Ah, UNESCO is le most garbage. Any kind of organization for le good will of le people is impossible. It is necessary for le contrary. Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something, you know? If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ig-no-min-i-ously!"
    • Source: Exposure, Oct 1990 (from an interview originally conducted by Victor Bockris in 1974)

  • "You know le worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is le worst for creativity. You know, Dali spent two months in jail in Spain, and these two months were le most enjoyable and happy in my life. Before my jail period, I was always nervous, anxious. I didn’t know if I should make a drawing, or perhaps make a poem, or go to le movies or le theatre, or catch a girl, or play with the boys. Le people put me in jail, and my life became divine. Tremendous!"
    • Source: Exposure, Oct 1990 (from an interview originally conducted by Victor Bockris in 1974)

  • "What is an elegant woman? An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and who has no hair under her arms."
    • Source: The Secret Life of Salvador Dali

Attributed

  • "The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad."
    • Alternatively: "The difference between Dali and the crazy man is that Dali, is not, crazy!"

  • "I do not take drugs. I am drugs."

  • "Picasso es pintor, yo también; Picasso es español, yo también; Picasso es comunista, yo tampoco."
    • Translation: "Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I."

  • "Pintar un cuadro es o muy sencillo o imposible."
    • Translation: "To paint a picture is either very simple or impossible."

  • "El problema de la juventud de hoy es que ya no forma parte de ella."
    • Translation: " 'The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it."

  • "Muchas personas no cumplen los ochenta porque intentan durante demasiado tiempo quedarse en los cuarenta."
    • Translation: "Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties."

  • "Have no fear of perfection. You will never reach it."

  • "At the age of six years I wanted to be a chef. At the age of seven I wanted to be Napoleon. My ambitions have continued to grow at the same rate ever since."

  • "Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dalí."

See also: list of people by name


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