There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Art is what you can get away with.
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.
So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.
The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
If I don't have red, I use blue.
To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.