I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
“Dalí is one marvellous painter, but in living times he's one marvellous clown —more interesting for everybody.” — Salvador Dalí Copy Share Image
The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
The world of the cinema and of painting are very different; precisely, the possibilities of photography and the cinema reside in that… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
“If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.” — Salvador Dalí Copy Share Image
Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette… — Salvador Dali Copy Share
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. — Salvador Dali Copy Share
Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision. — Salvador Dali Copy Share
Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and… — Salvador Dali Copy Share
Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory. — Salvador Dali Copy Share
Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete… — Salvador Dali Copy Share
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing… — Salvador Dali Copy Share
Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear… — Salvador Dali Copy Share
Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses. — Salvador Dali Copy Share
