Artist Quote by Salvador Dalí Download Open image ““If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.”” — Salvador Dalí ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Artist Learning Paint Painting Painting Paint Understand Understand Painting
If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
“Paint what you know, especially if it looks like something you shouldn't know.” — Andrew Levy Copy Share Image
“..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.” — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
“But I want to paint you. That’s how artists come to possess things beyond their means, can you understand that?” — Lakambini A. Sitoy Copy Share Image
“It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess.” — Leonhard Emmerling Copy Share Image
“Before you paint someone poorly, check the brush — it may be carrying the colors of your own reflection.” — Charmaine J Forde Copy Share Image
“A person may paint or talk about painting but he cannot do both at the same time.” — Irving Stone 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 Image
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 Image
Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
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 Image
Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
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The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
