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Salvador Dalí

Quote of Salvador Dalí - Painting is an infinitely minute part...


Biography - Salvador Dalí:

Spanish surrealist artist.
Born: 1904 - Died: 1989
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Spain
Spain

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.



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Quotes for: painting


Quotes

Quotes about painting:


I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.





Eloquence is a painting of thought.





Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.





It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.





I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.





No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.











Quotes

Salvador Dalí also said...


Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.





There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.





Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.





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.





Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.





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












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