Salvador Dali Quotes

Author Image

Salvador Dali

Profession : Artist

Birth : May 11, 1904

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

Salvador Dali

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

Salvador Dali

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

Salvador Dali

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Salvador Dali

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

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

Salvador Dali

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

Salvador Dali

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

Salvador Dali

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 Dali

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

Salvador Dali

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 Dali