3 Days to Go ... Feeling a bit trippy, a bit spacey ... a bit
Surreal Salvador Dalí Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech
1st Marquis of Púbol
11th May 1904 - 23rd January 1989
Spanish Surrealist
Collaborated with Walt Disney in
Destino and Alfred Hitchcock in
Spellbound “Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure-that of being Salvador Dali”
“I don't do drugs, I am drugs”
“Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic”
“There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.”
“There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.”
“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”
“Let my enemies devour each other.”
“I shall be so brief that I have already finished”
“Happy is he who causes a scandal”
“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.”
“It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning”
“I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.”
“The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot”
“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.”
“What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust”
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
“In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.”
“I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.”
“This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.”
“Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.”
“When I was five years old I saw an insect that had been eaten by ants and of which nothing remained except the shell. Through the holes in its anatomy one could see the sky. Every time I wish to attain purity I look at the sky through flesh.”
“Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.”
“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.”
“I am not strange, I am just not normal.”