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Salvador Dali (Salvador Felip Jacint Dalí)

(1904 – 1989) Full name: Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol. A Spanish surrealist artist, painter, photographer, sculptor, and writer. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. He was a versatile artist. Some of his more popular works are sculptures and other objects, and he is also noted for his contributions to theatre, fashion, film and photography, among other areas.

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

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.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

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.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.