I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas. Salvador Dali More Quotes by Salvador Dali More Quotes From Salvador Dali Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you. Salvador Dali draws paint masters I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power. Salvador Dali law want order When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault. Salvador Dali doubt sound mind I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly. Salvador Dali trying inspire profound Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali. Salvador Dali awakening morning today The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali Salvador Dali painter luck two New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me. Salvador Dali liberty skins land 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. Salvador Dali wall eye dream There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't cook and will. There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. Salvador Dali spouse mad differences I'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die. Salvador Dali live-forever genius forever Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius Salvador Dali madness genius Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch. Salvador Dali painting clerks watches The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad. Salvador Dali mad differences facts I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it. Salvador Dali tired humor funny The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. Salvador Dali nouveau-riche beauty art Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic. Salvador Dali hallucinogens drug artist It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. Salvador Dali creativity design creative I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous. Salvador Dali scandal artist world An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms. Salvador Dali arms women hair For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful. Salvador Dali ugly beautiful looks
