Artist Quotes by Salvador Dali

God is just another artist, like me.

— Salvador Dali

It is either easy or impossible.

— Salvador Dali

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

— Salvador Dali

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

— Salvador Dali

It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures

— Salvador Dali

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

— Salvador Dali

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.

— Salvador Dali

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

— Salvador Dali

“Dalí is one marvellous painter, but in living times he's one marvellous clown —more interesting for everybody.”

— Salvador Dalí

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

— Salvador Dali

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

— Salvador Dali

Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect…

— Salvador Dali

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

— Salvador Dali

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

— Salvador Dali

Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.

— Salvador Dali

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live,…

— Salvador Dali

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as…

— Salvador Dali

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact…

— Salvador Dali

If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further,…

— Salvador Dali

“If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.”

— Salvador Dalí

I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.

— Salvador Dali

The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali

— Salvador Dali

I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.

— Salvador Dali

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

— Salvador Dali

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

— Salvador Dali

Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.

— Salvador Dali

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

— Salvador Dali

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

— Salvador Dali