Salvador Dali Quotes

I am not a juicy painter.

Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

My cubist paintings are my most Mexican.

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

As a political artist, I think you have to learn how to create art, no matter what your ideology is.

I have been told that some of my photographs maybe indicate that I am a painter.

The artist is called a creator.

As an artist, what you do is you put out material constantly. Whether it's films, or TV shows, music... and you know, you hope people respond to it. You always have to know, as well, that not everybody's gonna like it. And that's okay. It's not for everyone. It's just for the crusty nugs.

If I have called Cubism a new order, it is without any revolutionary ideas or any reactionary ideas... One cannot escape from one's own epoch, however revolutionary one may be.

Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.

In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet at the moment when he is making his last revision to a new poem. The moment before, he was still only a potential poet; the moment after, he is a man who has ceased to write poetry, perhaps forever.

Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.

As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.

How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century.

All you can do as an artist is do what you think is an extension of you. You put down on paper ... who you are. That's what being an artist is all about. And when it gets done, you don't look back at it and say, Oh, I could have done that better.

Abstract expression is so solid, so successful and recognizable, but there's a mystery about the artists that goes into it, a fetishism about the artists themselves and who they were.

I'm a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.

Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.

They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.

I don't paint nature. I am nature.

I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.

What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?

When I began as an artist, I already did not like expressionism, or abstract expressionism, because abstract painting had already been done. I did not want to belong to any one group or the other, and I'm not one or the other.

I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office; that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a poet. I am as truthful as I can be. That makes me an artist. I heed the people; I do not lead the people.

I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often and associate myself with works of art.