Salvador Dali on Art
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
- Salvador Dali
There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
- Salvador Dali
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
- John Ciardi
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
- Novalis
Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.
- Hugh Casson
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable) to become a real estate agent.
- Maria Lenhart
The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
- Paul Strand
Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone’s got to take care of all your details.
- Andy Warhol
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
- Albert Einstein