Russell Smith Quotes

If I had a Salvador Dali painting, I would cuddle it to sleep.

In the beginning, I started doing portraits of children, and of course, children have large eyes. For some reason, they just started getting bigger and bigger. Then, when I started painting imaginary children rather than real ones, they became bigger still.

One of the most difficult things for any artist to do is create a world that looks both completely alien yet real and possible.

I saw Frank Frazetta's art, and it seared on my memory. I love his paintings. They're so amazing.

I used to have a recurring black-and-white dream where I would drive in on a hover car and raid the shoe closets of this huge mansion. I don't know what that means at all, to be honest.

When I look at my childhood art, it's the same. It's animals dressed up as people in patterned clothing. It basically looked like concept art for 'BoJack.' It's kind of uncanny.

I had a nightmare that I was mopping floors and that this Freddie Gibbs thing was all a dream.

I love Nicoletta Ceccoli , and I love Tim Burton movies. So those are like my biggest inspirations I think.

I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.

Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through.

The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.

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

I dream in colour, and its always very surreal. My dream world is complete Hieronymus Bosch and Dali. I love it, I look forward to it every night

Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.

I've put an umbrella in my mouth and opened it. I sat in a lemon-meringue pie. I've done terrible things to my dog with a fork.

Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.

The more I look at most of the art movements, it's all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians.

Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy.

It looks rather ordinary," said the Snork. "Unless you consider that a top hat is always somewhat extraordinary, of course.

Refuse any image that could have a rational meaning or any memory or culture

I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.

The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no need to write) where others have written "jasmines, swans and fauns." But what he has really done has been simply to bring to light another form of rhetoric which hitherto lay hidden in the latrines.

You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look down at the sidewalk and earthworms are spelling your name. Or you open a peanut bag and the 'hello' is written in your writing on the inside of the shell. Would that weird ya?

I wanted to meet other artists. I suppose I simply felt that I was taking pot shots at clay pipes. Pop! Down goes Gertrude, down goes Jean Cocteau, down goes André Gide.