Salvador Dalí
Birthday: May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Girona, Catalonia, Spain
Birth Name: Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domenech
Height: 172 cm
Surrealist-turned-catholic painter Dalí worked on various movies as well. While a member of the French surrealist group, he co-wrote Un chien andalou (1929) and L'Âge d'or (1930) ...Show More
Do you know . . . ? Every day, I see new things in the shape of stones.
Do you know . . . ? Every day, I see new things in the shape of stones.
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible re Show more
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. Hide
[when asked what was his destiny] To become classic!
[when asked what was his destiny] To become classic!
I do not understand why man should be capable of so little fantasy.
I do not understand why man should be capable of so little fantasy.
Beauty is but the conscious sum of all our perversions.
Beauty is but the conscious sum of all our perversions.
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to re Show more
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. Hide
What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
Everything leads me to think that, in the near future, reality will be considered exclusively as a m Show more
Everything leads me to think that, in the near future, reality will be considered exclusively as a mere state of depression and inactivity of the mind. Hide
[when asked if he took drugs] I do not DO drugs. I AM drugs!
[when asked if he took drugs] I do not DO drugs. I AM drugs!
Take me, I am the drug. Take me, I am the hallucinogenic.
Take me, I am the drug. Take me, I am the hallucinogenic.
The only difference between a madman and me is that I am not mad.
The only difference between a madman and me is that I am not mad.
I'm in a permanent state of intellectual erection.
I'm in a permanent state of intellectual erection.
Salvador Dalí's FILMOGRAPHY
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