Salvador Dali Quotes about Art

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

It is either easy or impossible.

If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.

Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!

Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.

Drawing is the honesty of the art.

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.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

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.

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.