SALVADOR DALI; artist quotes on Surrealism art, his life style with Gala, auto-biography notes, analysis, by the Spanish painter of the Surreal
SALVADOR DALI (1904 – 1989) was a painter artist in Surrealism art, exhibiting a rather eccentric life style with his wife Gala. Dali was also a highly imaginative artist, creating the Surreal mainly in his pictures in oil painting technique. He joined the Surrealist artist group in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, where he found also his muse and future wife Gala in 1929. Dali had a strong affinity for the unusual and the grandiose; both he expressed in his painting art as well as in his personal life. Dali produced also many concepts, analysis, texts and writings on art and life. At the bottom some art links for more facts, biography information and pictures of his surrealism painting art (ed: Fons Heijnsbroek).
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Dali: ‘Persistance of Memory’, oil painting, c. 1931 |
SALVADOR DALI, 35 artist quotes on painting art in Surrealism and his life with Gala
- Telephone, pedal washbasin, white refrigerators gleaming with Ripolin, bidet, small phonograph… …objects of authentic and pure poetry (MPC p. 11)… …The Parthenon was not built as a ruin. It was built on a new surface without patina, like out automobiles. /we will not always bear on our shoulders the weight of our father’s corpse. (1920’s; MPC p 13)
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: “Dali and Me”, Catherine Millet, (translated by Trista Selous), Scheidegger & Spiess AG, 8001 Zurich Switzerland, p. 28 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- The more I looked at his face (St. Sebastinan’s, fh) the more curious it seemed. That said, I seemed to have always known it and the aseptic morning light revealed its smallest details which such clarity, such purity, that I was impossible moved… …In the upper part of the heliometer was St. Sebastian’s magnifying glass… …I put my eye to the magnifying glass, product of a slow distillation, at once numerical and intuitive. Each drop of water a, a number. Each drop of blood a geometry.
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: the poem ‘Sant Sebastia’ Salvador Dali 1927 (dedicated to the Spanish poet Garcia Lorca, fh); as quoted in “Dali and Me”, Catherine Millet, (translated by Trista Selous), Scheidegger & Spiess AG, 8001 Zurich Switzerland, p. 46 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- One morning with Ripolin (French painter) I painted a new-born that I then left to dry on the tennis-court. After two days I found it bristling with ants that made it move to the anaesthetized, silent rhythm of sea-urchins. However I at once realised that this newborn child was none other than the pink breast of my girlfriend, being frenetically eaten by the shining, metallic thickness of the phonograph. But it wasn’t her breast either: it was little pieces of my cigarette paper nervously grouped around the magnetic topaz of my fiancée’s ring.
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: ‘Mon amie et la plague’’ (My girlfriend and the beach), 1927; as quoted in “Dali and Me”, Catherine Millet, (translated by Trista Selous), Scheidegger & Spiess AG, 8001 Zurich Switzerland, pp. 47-48 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- One might think that through ecstasy we would have access to a world as far from reality as that of the dream. – The repugnant can become desirable, affection cruelty, the ugly beautiful, faults qualities, qualities black miseries.
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: ‘Le phénomene de l’extase’, in ‘Minotaure’ 1933; as quoted in “Dali and Me”, Catherine Millet, (translated by Trista Selous), Scheidegger & Spiess AG, 8001 Zurich Switzerland, p. 133 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- We know today that form is always the product of an inquisitorial process of matter – the specific reaction of matter when subjected to the terrible coercion of space choking it on all sides, pressing and squeezing it out, producing the swellings that burst form it life to the exact limits of the rigorous contours of its own originality of reaction.
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: the beginning of “The Secret Life of Salvador Dali” (first publication in 1942, fh), Vision Press, London 1976, p. 2 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- When I have at last become like a statue through the exacerbation of my ego which has led me to this ultimate sclerosis… …Then and only then will I at last be able to set this statue up and come out of myself into the crowd to go and see the world. No one will notice anything because they will all be looking at the statue and I will be able to go about, free at last… …It’s then that I shall realise my eternal dream: to become a newspaper reporter!
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: ‘The Dali News, Dimanche 27 November’, (1960) Salvador Dali; as quoted in “Dali and Me”, Catherine Millet, (translated by Trista Selous), Scheidegger & Spiess AG, 8001 Zurich Switzerland, pp. 163-164 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- Having reached the surface (in the Paris Metro, ed.), I remained crazed for a long time, gathering my spirits. I had the impression that I had been vomited by a monstrous anus after being tumultuously brewed by an intestine. I did not know where I was; as though spat out on to unknown land, a pointless little excrement… …And, a miracle!… …This shock was a beneficial revelation. One must at every opportunity use the subterranean paths of action and thought, erase the traces, appear suddenly and irrelevantly, endless conquer oneself, never hesitate to sodomize one’s soul so that it will be reborn purer and stronger than ever.
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: the beginning of “The Secret Life of Salvador Dali” (first publication in 1942, fh), Vision Press, London 1976, p. 210 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- The Italian metaphysical movement (initiated by the Italian painter ca. 1915De Chirico, fh) started from the spiritual reality, a consequence of the physical miracle and it aspects grouped on an immaterial plane; all this formed a new spectral reality, in order to attain maximal, almost erotic creativity in touch./ The Cubists, on the other hand, starting from this sensual-idealistic touch, found a pure, new form of spirituality./ Lorca is one of those who have reached this new form of miracle by following the paths of the greatest incredulity. He does not even belief in his own hands, unless it be to turn one-legged physiological and abstract tables. (introducing an exhibition of drawings by Lorca, fh)
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: (MPC 3); as quoted in “Dali and Me”, Catherine Millet, (translated by Trista Selous), Scheidegger & Spiess AG, 8001 Zurich Switzerland, p. 152 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- July 1952/the 27th/This morning an exceptional defecation: two small turds in the shape of a rhinoceros horns. Such a scanty stool worries me. I would have thought the champagne, so alien to my routine, would have had a laxative effect. (DG p. 59)
- the 29th/Because of a very long fart, really a very long, and let us be frank, melodious fart, that I produced when I woke up, I was reminded of Michel de Montaigne. (DG p. 60)
- September 1952/the2nd/Again this morning, while I was on the toilet, I had a truly remarkable piece of insight. My bowel movement, by the way, was perfectly exceptional, smotth and odourless. (DG p. 64)
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: “The Diary of a Genius”’, Salvador Dali, London Pan Books, 1976, 1980 p. 59 – 64 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- Myself at the age if six, when I believed I was a little girl, raising with a very great care the skin of the sea in order to observe a dog sleeping in the shadow of the water.
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: the title of an oil painting, Dali made in 1950 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- In 1951 the two most subversive things that could happen to an ex-surrealist were: firstly, to become a mystic and secondly, to know how to draw. These two models of rigour happened to me at the same time.
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: his lecture ‘Picasso et moi’ (MPC 65); as quoted in “Dali and Me”, Catherine Millet, (translated by Trista Selous), Scheidegger & Spiess AG, 8001 Zurich Switzerland, p. 136 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- Let us watch this de Kooning (Willem de Kooning, a leading Abstract Expressionist painter who just made his controversial ’Women’- paintings, ed.), with his prematurely white hair making his great sleepwalker’s movements, as though he was waiting in a dream to open bays of Biscay, to explode islands like pieces of orange or Parma violets, to tear continents from a cerulean blue split by oceans of Naples yellow… …if by good or by ill fortune, in the middle of this Dionysian demiurge the image of ‘’The Eternal Feminine’ should appear… …the least that might have happened to her would be that she should emerge (from all this chaos) wearing nothing but a little make-up.
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: (MPC 75); as quoted in “Dali and Me”, Catherine Millet, (translated by Trista Selous), Scheidegger & Spiess AG, 8001 Zurich Switzerland, p. 135 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- And man’s highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most. As a result, I increasingly dislike all scatological jokes and all forms of frivolity on this subject. Indeed, I am dumbfounded at how little philosophical and metaphysical importance the human mind has attached to the vital subject of excrement.(1952)
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: “The Diary of a Genius” 1964, Salvador Dali, London Pan Books, 1976, 1980 p. 65 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- Surrealism in its early period offered specific methods to bring images (in their paintings, ed.)closer to concrete irrationality. These methods, based on the exclusive passive and receptive role of the ‘surrealist subject’, are bankrupt and are giving way to new surrealist methods for the systematic exploration of the irrational… …The new delirious images of concrete irrationality suggest their physical, real ‘possibility’; they go beyond the domain of psycho-analysable fantasies and ‘virtual’ representations… …Against the dream memory and impossible, virtual images of purely receptive states that one can only recount, the physical facts of ‘objective’ irrationality with which one can already hurt oneself.
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: “Dali and Me”, Catherine Millet, (translated by Trista Selous), Scheidegger & Spiess AG, 8001 Zurich Switzerland, p. 23 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- I can say without fear of falling into the slightest exaggeration that each outline of a rock, / and / of the beaches of Cadaques (where Dali spent his childhood, ed.), each of the geological anomalies of its landscape and its unique light I know by heart, for in the paths of my wandering solitudes, it was these silhouettes of stones and its states of light attached to the structure / and the aesthetic substance/of the landscape that were the sole protagonists on the mineral impossibility of which I project day after day all the accumulated and chronically unsatisfied tension of mt erotic-emotional life (written in a mixture of French and Catalan accent, fh)
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: the catalogue of the exhibition ‘Dali una vida de libro’, Bibliotheca de Catalunya, Barcelona 2004 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- This book will prove that that the daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, his ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from those of the rest of mankind. (before 1964)
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: the Prologue of “The Diary of a Genius”’, Salvador Dali, London Pan Books, 1976, 1980 p. 11 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- Let us illuminate my political positions. I have always been against any affiliation… …I am the only Surrealist who always refused to be part of any organization whatsoever. I was never a Stalinist, nor fooled by any association. Illustrious members of the Falange (Spanish ultra-right wing, fh) I never got involved… …If I accepted the Grand Cross of Isabella the Catholic from Franco’s (Spanish fascist dictator, ed.) hands, it is because in Soviet Russia I was not awarded the Lenin Prize.
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: “Entretiens avec Salvador Dali”, Alain Bosquet, 1966; as quoted in “The shameful life of Salvador Dali”, Ian Gibson, New York / London, Norton & Co, 1997 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- It is difficult to hold the world’s interest for more than half an hour at a time… …I have been successful for twenty years, to the extent that papers publish the most incomprehensible new items of our time, sent by teletype… ….PARIS. Dali gave lecture at Sorbonne on Vermeer’s paintings ‘lacemaker’ and the rhinoceros… …NEW YORK. Dali landed in New York dressed in a golden space-suit.
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: “The Diary of a Genius” 1966, Salvador Dali, London Pan Books, 1976, 1980 p. 171-(famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- Our contemporaries, systematically cretinized… …by imaginative fasting, by famines of paternal affection and all sorts, vainly seek to bite into the senile, triumphal sweetness of the plump, atavistic, tender, militaristic and territorial back of a Hitlerian wet-nurse. (MPC p. 53)
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: ‘La Conquête de l’irrational’ 1966 Salvador Dali, in “Editions Surréalistes; as quoted in “Dali and Me”, Catherine Millet, (translated by Trista Selous), Scheidegger & Spiess AG, 8001 Zurich Switzerland, p. 35 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- Men who fuck easily, and can give themselves without difficulty, have only a very diminished creative potency… …Look at Leonardo da Vinci, Hitler, Napoleon, they all left their mark on their times, and they were more or less impotent.
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: “Entretiens avec Salvador Dali”, Alain Bosquet, 1966; as quoted in “The shameful life of Salvador Dali”, Ian Gibson, New York / London, Norton & Co, 1997 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- The pleasure of the flesh (here: making love or masturbation, ed.)can be fulfilled only if a particular dimension is created, a kind of stereoscopic phenomenon, an imaginary hologram as real as reality… …I need all these suddenly present images of my past that forms the fabric of my entire life.
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: “Comment on deviant Dali, les aveux inavouables de Salvador Dali, André Parinaud” (1973); as quoted in the translation “The Unspeakable confessions of Salvador Dali”, Parinaud, ed. W. H. Allen, London 1976, p. 96 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- …the paint marks (in Impressionist paintings, ed.) placed apparently without order… …and which suddenly became magnificently ordered if one knew how to make the right distance… … to communicate a deep, sun-drenched image of a stream, landscape or face… …My eyes were popping out of my head.
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: “Comment on deviant Dali, les aveux inavouables de Salvador Dali, André Parinaud” (1973); as quoted in the translation “The Unspeakable confessions of Salvador Dali”, Parinaud, ed. W. H. Allen, London 1976, p. 42 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- I am capable of projecting myself into my little inner cinema… …I free myself through a secret exit from the attempts to encircle my soul.
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: “Comment on deviant Dali, les aveux inavouables de Salvador Dali, André Parinaud” (1973); as quoted in the translation “The Unspeakable confessions of Salvador Dali”, Parinaud, ed. W. H. Allen, London 1976 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- My supreme game is to imagine myself dead, devoured by worms. I close my eyes and, with incredible details of absolute, scatological precision, I see myself being slowly eaten and digested by an infernal swarm of large greenish maggots gorging themselves on my flesh. (p. 12)
- Death is the thing I am most afraid of, and the resurrection of the flesh, a great Spanish theme, is the one that it is hardest for me to accept, form the point of view of….life. (p. 22)
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: “Comment on deviant Dali, les aveux inavouables de Salvador Dali, André Parinaud” (1973); as quoted in the translation “The Unspeakable confessions of Salvador Dali”, Parinaud, ed. W. H. Allen, London 1976, pp. 12 + 22 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- Shit scared them (the Surrealists, ed.). Shit and arseholes. Yet, what was more human and more needful of transcending! From that moment, I know I would keep on obsessing them with what they most dreaded. And when I invented Surrealist objects, I had the deep inner fulfilment of knowing, while the (Surrealist, ed.) group went into ecstasies over their operation, that these objects very exactly reproduced the contradictions of a rectal sphincter at work, so that what they were thus admiring was their own fear.
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: “Comment on deviant Dali, les aveux inavouables de Salvador Dali, André Parinaud” (1973); as quoted in the translation “The Unspeakable confessions of Salvador Dali”, Parinaud, ed. W. H. Allen, London 1976, p. 113 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- Sleeping is a way of dying or at least of dying to reality, better still it is the death of reality, but reality dies in love as in dreams. The life of man is entirely occupied by the bloody osmoses of dreams and love.
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: “L’amour”, S. Dali; as quoted in “Dali and Me”, Catherine Millet, (translated by Trista Selous), Scheidegger & Spiess AG, 8001 Zurich Switzerland, p. 126 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- It is with Millet’s ‘Angelus’ that I associate all the pre-twilight and twilight memories of my childhood, regarding them as the most delirious, in other words (commonly speaking) poetic… …Most frequently, at the end of summer days, I would leave the streets of the town and go to the fields to listen to the sounds of insects and plunge into infinite reveries.
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: (MTA); as quoted in “Dali and Me”, Catherine Millet, (translated by Trista Selous), Scheidegger & Spiess AG, 8001 Zurich Switzerland, p. 126 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- ‘Up there!’. Wonderful words! All my life has been dominated by these antagonisms: high and low. In my childhood I tried desperately to be high up.
- There was nothing left between me and the void. I must have spent several minutes lying on my stomach with my eyes closed to resist its almost invincible attraction.
- Most of my readers will have felt the sensation of suddenly falling into the void, just at the point when sleep is going to take them over completely. Waking up with a start, your heart convulsively trembling, you don’t always realise that this sensation of vertigo is a reminiscence of th expulsion of being born… …All those who throw themselves into the void have at bottom only one desire, to be reborn at any price.
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: (VSD); as quoted in “Dali and Me”, Catherine Millet, (translated by Trista Selous), Scheidegger & Spiess AG, 8001 Zurich Switzerland, pp. 131-13 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- Where is the real? All appearance are deceitful, the visible surface is deceptive. I look at my hand… …It is nerves, muscles, bones. Let us go deeper: it is molecules and acids. Further still: it is an impalpable waltz of electrons and neutrons. Further still:… … an immaterial nebula. Who can prove that my hand exists?
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: (VSD); as quoted in “Dali and Me”, Catherine Millet, (translated by Trista Selous), Scheidegger & Spiess AG, 8001 Zurich Switzerland, pp. 133-134 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- Every time I lose a little sperm I’m convinced I’ve wasted it. I always feel guilty afterwards… … To start with, I’m not as impotent as all that. (in interview published in ‘Playboy’ 1976, fh)
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: ‘Playboy’ 1976; as quoted in “Dali and Me”, Catherine Millet, (translated by Trista Selous), Scheidegger & Spiess AG, 8001 Zurich Switzerland, p. 15 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- But I very early realized, instinctively, my life formula: to get others to accept as natural the excesses of one’s personality an thus to relieve oneself of his own anxieties by creating a sort of collective participation…
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: “Comment on deviant Dali, les aveux inavouables de Salvador Dali, André Parinaud” (1973); as quoted in the translation “The Unspeakable confessions of Salvador Dali”, Parinaud, ed. W. H. Allen, London 1976, p. 17 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- Surrounded by countless people who murmur my name and call me ‘maître’, I am about to inaugurate the exhibition of my one hundred illustrations of the Divine Comedy at the Galliera Museum.
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: Prologue of “The Diary of a Genius”’, Salvador Dali, London Pan Books, 1976, 1980 p. 189 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- The anagram ‘Avida Dollars’ was a talisman for me (and ‘Divine Dali’, so called by André Breton, fh). It rendered the rain of dollars fluid, sweet and monotonous. Someday I shall tell the whole truth about the way in which this blessed disorder of Danaë was garnered. It will be a chapter of a new book, probably my masterpiece: ‘On the Life of Salvador Dali, considered as a Work of Art’ (but never written, ed.)
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: Prologue of “The Diary of a Genius”’, Salvador Dali, London Pan Books, 1976, 1980 p. 35 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
- Popularity, even at its most mediocre, delights me… … I behave nicely with the public, out of the same concern for prudence that makes me generous in cases of epidemics or other collective calamities… …Beware, I tell myself, because you may be judged at the end of the time, if there is an end of time and a judge… … Beware of the day when no one ask you for anything anymore, be nice with the ceratinization of advertising… …Any reflection of my existence in others clams my worries about the feeble degree of reality of things, the world and myself. It’s from all these eyes, in which I see myself seen, that I take my substance… …but where is substance? If it is not in nature it can’t be in God… …In a reality that endlessly disperses before the eye, fades away between our fingers, the only really material matter, the only really substantial substance, would be God.
* Salvador Dali, source of his artist quotes, texts & concepts on painting art & life: (MPC 3); as quoted in “Dali and Me”, Catherine Millet, (translated by Trista Selous), Scheidegger & Spiess AG, 8001 Zurich Switzerland, p. 167 (famous surrealist artist creating the Surreal in oil paintings and photography; Dali wrote also diary, many writings, poetry, analysis and texts on art; + links for biography facts below)
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* Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, in English language
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