Salvador Dali Quotes

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.

Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali.

Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

For me, surrealism is in my blood; it's not an effort.

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

When I wake up, I can't wait to get to the studio, go into the paint room.

We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.

There were a few verses that I wrote literally on the spot. But the concept was there. It's about being in your own world musically and waking up in the morning and walking outside and being consumed by everything around you. Just being aware of the good things in art and music and life. It's also about how the world is at a boiling point, in a way.

Here on the drawing board fingers and noses leak from the air brush maggots lie under if i should die before if i should die in the back room stacked up in smooth boxes like soapflakes or tunafish wait the undreamt of.

Normal people do not create art.

Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.

The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.

Woo the muse of the odd.

That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.

There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.

Art is both creation and recreation.

All art is based on non-conformity.

I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.

Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.

His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be done by genius, and to make the man of genius believe he can only do what is to be done by mechanical rules and systematic industry. This is not a very feasible scheme; nor is Sir Joshua sufficiently clear and explicit in his reasoning in support of it.