Quotes About Art

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

Realism can break a writer's heart.

People may be understood through the art they produce or by descriptions from friends and family, by observation, or through their dreams.

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.

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

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

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

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?" Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.

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

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.

Surrealism is not a movement. It is a latent state of mind perceivable through the powers of dream and nightmare.

If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

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.

La gente debería verse más como sus retratos y menos como en la vida real

The difference between me and the surrealists is that I am a surrealist.

Dalí is one marvellous painter, but in living times he's one marvellous clown —more interesting for everybody.

Creo en el humanismo del ojo del culo.

profesori nisu mogli da se odlu?e da me smatraju'umetnikom'. –On je veoma ozbiljan-govorili su- veoma vešt i uspeva u onome što naumi. Ali, hladan je kao led, u njegovim delima nema emocije, jer on nije li?nost. On je racionalan i, bez sumnje, intelektualac. Za umetnost treba imati srce!