Salvador Dali in his artist quotes on painting, Surrealism & life - free resource, art history

Salvador Dali in quotes - the famous Spanish artist on his paintings, Surrealism and his rather eccentric life - free resource for students, pupils and teachers in art history
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Salvador Dali’s artist quotes reveal clearly that he was a highly imaginative painter-artist with a strong affinity for the Surreal, the Unusual and the Grandiose. We can recognize them as the characteristic elements of Dali’s famous painting art, as well as of his personal life with his wife Gaja.

The Surreal was the focus of Surrealism and of Dali’s art. And Dali has `probably become the most famous of all Surrealist artists, despite he broke with Surrealism very obstinately. Viewed from the other side: Dali was banned by the Surrealist artists because of his sympathy for dictator Franco, leader of Spanish fascism.

Some selected quotes of the famous Spanish artist Salvador Dali: - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’Just now I’m painting a beautiful woman, smiling, burnt to a crisp, with feathers of all colors, held up by a small die of burning marble; the die is in turn held up by a little puff of smoke, churned and quite; in the sky there are asses with parrot-heads, grasses and beach sand, all about to explode, all clean, incredible objective…’ - quote of Dali in 1927, from his letter to his artist-friend the Spanish writer Lorca

• ’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…’ - quote from Dali’s lecture in 1951: ‘Pablo Picasso et moi’

• ’This book (‘Diary of a Genius’, written by Dali) 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.’ - quote of Dali, from the ‘Prologue’ of ‘The Diary of a Genius’, 1964
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  selection of free art-resources on the famous Spanish artist Salvador Dali:

• extended biographical notes of Salvador Dali, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dalí

  • selected artist-quotes of ànd about Dali, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Salvador_Dalí
  • images of Dali’s painting art, on Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/salvador-dali
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]