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Biography - Salvador Dalí:

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

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.



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(French)



French
De la beauté terrifiante et comestible de l'architecture modern style.




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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 for: beauty


Quotes

Quotes about beauty:


Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.





All the diversity, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.





All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.





Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.





What beauty is, I know not.





I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.











Quotes for: architecture


Quotes

Quotes about architecture:


Architecture in general is frozen music.





Architecture is the great book of humanity, the principal expression of man in his different stages of development, either as a force or as an intelligence.





Thus, down to the time of Gutenberg, architecture is the principal writing, the universal writing.





The mood which emanates from architecture comes close to the effect of music.





Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.





I call architecture frozen music.











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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