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Salvador Dalí

Quote of Salvador Dalí - We are all hungry and thirsty...


Biography - Salvador Dalí:

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

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.



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Quotes for: art


Quotes

Quotes about art:


Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.





My trade and art is to live.





The more I think about it the more I feel that there’s nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.





Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.





I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'





The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.











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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