Salvador Dali Quotes

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.

Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

I'm a creator at heart.

You're not gonna write a hundred songs and have a hundred entirely different ideas. It's a matter of finding the ones that are the freshest and most unique.

You can't buy vision, and you can't buy aesthetic.

It's so difficult to actually come up with ideas that you really fall in love with, you know? That's the most difficult thing about filmmaking - and that's my main challenge in life.

You're creating ' it comes from the heart, the spirit, the soul. You're not manufacturing somebody else's plan, somebody else's blueprint, somebody else's idea that's not yours. So when you're creating, that's the beauty side of art, you know? It comes from within you.

Just finding ways to be not provocative for provocative's sake, but to show an idea that hasn't been shown before, I mean that's interesting to me.

Sometimes a crazy idea can make something special.

Creative instinct is personal.

We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's journey. It's a pretty amazing path.

When you draw, you copy the world don't you? You remake it on paper, but it isn't the same. It's yours. No one else could have created it just like that. When I make poems, I use the words we all use, but the order and the sound create a new power. This wood is someone's creation. We stumble through it's tendrils, as if we're crawling through the synapses of his mind.

Stay loyal to your creativity because it's a gift.

I don't think my work is so strange. It's just a matter of having the discipline to go the whole way with an idea, to stretch it as far as it can go.

As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.

I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.

I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that.

If you don't have an idea, all you have is style.

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.