The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless. Salvador Dali More Quotes by Salvador Dali More Quotes From Salvador Dali The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets Salvador Dali wine secret doe If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius. Salvador Dali drawing color art The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas. Salvador Dali able usual ideas You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity. You know, Dali spent two months in jail in Spain, and these two months were the 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 the movies or the theatre, or catch a girl, or play with the boys. The people put me in jail, and my life became divine. Tremendous! Salvador Dali creativity girl boys Qui sait déguster ne boit plus jamais de vin, mais goûte des secrets Salvador Dali plus wine secret The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. Salvador Dali real love memories It is either easy or impossible. Salvador Dali artist impossible art I shall be so brief that I have already finished. Salvador Dali finished Whatever happens, my audience mustn't know whether I am spoofing or being serious; and likewise I mustn't know either. I am in a constant interrogation; when does the deep and philosophically valid Dali begin, and where does the looney and preposterous Dali end? Salvador Dali serious ends doe We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Salvador Dali concrete thirsty hungry Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being Salvador Dalí - and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things this Salvador Dalí is going to accomplish today? Salvador Dali wake-up joy morning Forever will be you and me. Salvador Dali be-you forever Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. Salvador Dali beautiful life art Knowing how to look is a way of inventing. Salvador Dali knowing looks way At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. Salvador Dali work witty funny Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly. Salvador Dali contrary sacred mistake I tried sex once with a woman and that woman was Gala. It was overrated. I tried sex once with a man and that man was the famous juggler Federico Garcia Lorca [the Spanish Surrealist poet]. It was very painful. Salvador Dali painful men sex I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry. Salvador Dali teaching average giving Everything that is contradictory creates life Salvador Dali contradictory I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone. Salvador Dali restaurants telephones lobster
