Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
Salvador DaliLet the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!
Salvador DaliNothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
Salvador DaliAll of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
Salvador DaliRight now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.
Salvador DaliI was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry.
Salvador Dali