Salvador Dalí - Quotes and Pics

Easy for you to say.
The panther in your avatar likes water anyhow.

...he saw a snail on a bicycle outside Freud's house when he first met Sigmund Freud.
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"I have been inclined to regard the Surrealists as complete fools, but that young Spaniard with his candid, fanatical eyes and his undeniable technical mastery, has changed my estimate."
- Sigmund Freud

"In the Surrealist period, I wanted to create the iconography of the interior world and the world of the marvelous, of my father Freud. Today, the exterior world and that of physics has transcended the one of psychology. My father today is Dr. Heisenberg."
- Salvador Dalí

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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.

Salvador Dali

"When I was six I wanted to be a cook. When I was seven I wanted to be Napoleon. My ambition has not ceased to grow and now my only wish is to be Salvador Dalí and nothing else.

On the other hand, that is very difficult, since the more I approach Salvador Dali the more he recedes."
- Salvador Dalí

"In the subconscious you fuck ugly people, never beautiful, because the libido always desires something repulsive."
- Salvador Dalí

ok

"While the majority of the Surrealist artists had become increasingly associated with leftist politics, Dalí maintained an ambiguous position on the subject of the proper relationship between politics and art.

Leading surrealist André Breton accused Dalí of defending the "new" and "irrational" in "the Hitler phenomenon", but Dalí quickly rejected this claim, saying, "I am Hitlerian neither in fact nor intention".

Dalí insisted that surrealism could exist in an apolitical context and refused to explicitly denounce fascism. Among other factors, this had landed him in trouble with his colleagues.

Later in 1934, Dalí was subjected to a "trial", in which he was formally expelled from the Surrealist group.

To this, Dalí retorted, "I myself am surrealism".
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"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."
- Salvador Dali

i found that clip highly entertaining, thanks

Check this one out.

A must see for this thread.

“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.”
- Salvador Dalí

"By no means will I return to Mexico.

I cannot stand being in a country more surrealistic than my paintings."

- Salvador Dalí

"The only thing the world will never tire of is exaggeration."
- Salvador Dalí

"A painting is a hand-made photograph."
- Salvador Dalí

"The real painter is he who’s able to patiently paint a pear surrounded by the tumult of history."
- Salvador Dalí

“The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.”
- Salvador Dalí

"I would have liked the whole world to have been my enemy. Intelligent persons that are against me are very worthy of esteem. The very worst, the most terrible, is stupid people who defend me."

- Salvador Dalí

"Time is one of the few important things left to us."

- Salvador Dalí

"Many people don´t make it to eighty because they try for too long to stay forty."

- Salvador Dalí

“Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.”

- Salvador Dalí

"It´s curious, I find it much more interesting to talk or be in contact with people who think the opposite of what I think, than with people that think the same as myself."

- Salvador Dalí

Viva la Dali Salvador!


You are keeping this thread alive aren't you OP!

"When I arrived in Paris I painted a large picture which I entitled Premonition of Civil War. In this picture I showed a vast human body breaking out into monstrous excrescences of arms and legs tearing at one another in a delirium of autostrangulation."

"As a background to this architecture of frenzied flesh devoured by a narcissistic and biological cataclysm, I painted a geological landscape, that had been uselessly revolutionized for thousands of years, congealed in its "normal course."

"The soft structure of that great mass of flesh in civil war I embellished with a few boiled beans, for one could not imagine swallowing all that unconscious meat without the presence, however uninspiring, of some mealy and melancholy vegetable."

"Our need of taking part in the existence of these things and our yearning to form a whole with them are shown to be emphatically material through our sudden consciousness of a new hunger we are suffering from."

"As we think it over, we find suddenly that it does not seem enough to devour things with our eyes, and our anxiety to join actively and effectively in their existence brings us to want to eat them."

"Beauty should be edible, or not at all."

- Salvador Dalí


(i sense a kabalic tie-in. The kabala is the artist's, or sorcerer's, best friend. Lewis Carrol described this very same thing concerning his writing philosophy. It's written about in The Annotated Alice somewhere. Maybe or not I'll look it up. ;)

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As Dali wrote in his first manifesto, a book entitled La Femme Visible,

"The new images which paranoiac thought may suddenly release will not merely spring from the unconscious; the force of their paranoiac power will itself be at the service of the unconscious."

The primary function of the paranoiac-critical method is, of course, to produce images of a startling and authentically unknown nature.

Contrary to belief, these are not hallucinations.

Rather than perceiving an object which does not exist, the paranoiac mind perceives alternate meanings and interpretations of objectively "real" things.

The new interpretation may, in fact, be totally viable, and can displace the original perception instantaneously. Whether this new relationship is created or merely noticed by the viewer is irrelevant.

"It is enough that the delirium of interpretation should have linked together the implications of the images of the different pictures covering a wall for the real existence of this link to be no longer deniable."

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definitely another good one! what a beautifully mad genius dali was!

I remember being told, "ehecatl, it is important that you know that floripondio is a deliriant, not a hallucinogen. Do you understand the difference?"

I would like to see a surreal painting of the perceptions of the Sandy Hook Massacre, following these guidelines.

"Those who worry about technique get everything wrong."
- Salvador Dalí

one may have better technique, they think, than Dalí, but if their subject is not gripping, it may fall flat.

Whoever wants to engage people’s interest must provoke them.
- Salvador Dalí

and perhaps contrary to the view of the Catalan surrealists, Dalí's peers, politics is a weak card, because people are politically divided. Thank God. There is however psychological and occult knowledge that could provide an aspiring artist powerful ideas of what to create. This understanding of underpinnings is more important than technique, as seen for example in the modern world, where even simple cartoon figures are made to carry powerful ideas.

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"Cannibalism is one of the most evident manifestations of tenderness."
- Salvador Dalí


"It’s easy to see whether someone has taste: the carpet must match the eyebrows."
- Salvador Dalí

Muchas personas no cumplen los ochenta porque intentan durante demasiado tiempo quedarse en los cuarenta.

"Bad taste is creative. It’s the predominance of biology over intelligence."

- Salvador Dalí

This is one of the better threads to come to GLP in a while. A break from the BS.I love art,a great deal of the members of GLP do not like, or even understand art.It shows their common immigrant roots.