Frases de Salvador Dalí

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“As sociedades democráticas são inadequadas para a publicação de tais revelações atroadoras como as que estou acostumado a fazer.”

“Não se preocupe com a perfeição - você nunca irá consegui-la.”

“O termômetro do sucesso é apenas a inveja dos descontentes.”

“O céu não está em cima, ou embaixo ou à direita ou à esquerda; está no centro do peito do homem que tem fé.”

“Ás vezes eu penso que um dia morrerei por uma overdose de satisfação.”

“O mínimo que se pode pedir a uma escultura é que ela não se mexa.”

“Que nosso fogo interno esteja ao máximo, para esquentar a regra ao rubro e modificá-la! Que nossa realidade interior seja tão forte que corrija a realidade exterior! E que nossas paixões sejam devorantes, mas que tenhamos um apetite de viver ainda maior, para devorá-las!”

“A arte somos Picasso e eu”

“Não tenha medo da perfeição. Você nunca vai atingi-la.”

“Um dia terá que ser admitido oficialmente que o que batizamos de realidade é uma ilusão até maior do que o mundo dos sonhos.”

“Não é necessário que o público saiba se eu estou a gozar ou se estou sério, assim como não é necessário eu próprio saber isso.”

“A diferença entre as recordações falsas e as verdadeiras é a mesma que existe entre as jóias: são sempre as falsas que parecem mais reais, mais brilhantes.”

“Eu vou ser tão breve que na verdade já terminei.”

“A minha única diferença em relação a um homem louco é que eu não sou louco!”

“Você tem que criar a confusão sistematicamente, isso liberta a criatividade. Tudo o que é contraditório cria vida.”

“O primeiro homem a comparar as maçãs do rosto de uma jovem a uma rosa era obviamente um poeta; o primeiro a repetir isso era possivelmente um idiota.”

“Tão pouco do que pode acontecer acontece…”

“Sem uma audiência, sem a presença de espectadores, essas joias não iriam cumprir a função para a qual ansiei. O espectador, então, é o melhor artista.”

“A cultura do espírito identificar-se-á com a cultura do desejo.”

“As guerras não machucam ninguém além das pessoas que morrem.”

“Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.”

“The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.”

“You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life”

“It's better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.”

“Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.”

“Forever will be you and me.”

“I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.”

“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.”

“When I paint, the Sea Roars
Others Splash about in the bath”

“I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties…”

“In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.”

“If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.”

“I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.”

“Let us watch this de Kooning [leading Abstract-Expressionist painter in New York] with his prematurely white hair making his great sleepwalker's movements, as though he was waiting in a dream to open bays of Biscay, to explode islands like pieces of orange or Parma violets, to tear continents from a cerulean blue split by oceans of Naples yellow.... if by good or by ill fortune, in the middle of this Dionysian demiurg the image of 'The Eternal Feminine should appear.. the least that might have happened to her would be that she should emerge (from all this chaos) wearing nothing but a little make-up.”

“When I have at last become like a statue through the exacerbation of my ego which has led me to this ultimate sclerosis... Then and only then will I at last be able to set this statue up and come out of myself into the crowd to go and see the world. No one will notice anything because they will all be looking at the statue and I will be able to go about, free at last... It's then that I shall realize my eternal dream: to become a newspaper reporter!”

“The H-bomb is coming out of my intuitive and inspirationic command, for my spirit speaketh and speaketh psychologically, intuitively, and inspirationally and guides the destinies of the nations of the earth... My Assumption is the opposite of the atomic bomb. Instead of disintegration of matter, we have the integration, the reconstitution of the real and glorious body of the Virgin in the heavens.”

“In the Surrealist period, I wanted to create the iconography of the interior world and the world of the marvelous, of my father Freud. Today, the exterior world and that of physics has transcended the one of psychology. My father today is Dr. Heisenberg.”

“The more I looked at his face [of Saint Sebastian] the more curious it seemed. That said, I seemed to have always known it and the aseptic morning light revealed its smallest details which such clarity, such purity, that I was impossible moved... In the upper part of the heliometer was St. Sebastian's magnifying glass... I put my eye to the magnifying glass, product of a slow distillation, at once numerical and intuitive. Each drop of water a number. Each drop of blood a geometry.”

“In the degree that the images of concrete irrationality approach phenomenal reality, the corresponding means of expression approach those of the great realist painters - Velasquez and Vermeer of Delft - to paint realistically according to irrational thought, according to the unknown imagination.”

“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.”

“Paranoiac-critical activity is an organizing and productive force of objective chance. Paranoiac-critical activity no longer considers surrealist phenomena and images by themselves but, on the contrary, as a coherent whole of systematic and significant relations.”

“From the moment I arrived in Cadaqués [Summer of 1929] I was assailed by a resurgence of my childhood period. The six years of secondary school, the three years in Madrid and the trip I had just made to Paris, all totally faded into the background, while all the fantasies and representations of my childhood period came back to take victorious possession of my mind.”

“Having reached the surface [in the Paris' Metro] I remained crazed for a long time, gathering my spirits. I had the impression that I had been vomited by a monstrous anus after being tumultuously brewed by an intestine. I did not know where I was; as though spat out on to unknown land, a pointless little excrement... And, a miracle!... This shock was a beneficial revelation. One must at every opportunity use the subterranean paths of action and thought, erase the traces, appear suddenly and irrelevantly, endless conquer oneself, never hesitate to sodomize one's soul so that it will be reborn purer and stronger than ever.”

“The fact that I myself, at the moment of painting, do not understand my own pictures, does not mean that these pictures have no meaning; on the contrary, their meaning is so profound, complex, coherent, and involuntary that it escapes the most simple analysis of logical intuition. To describe my pictures in everyday language, to explain them, it is necessary to submit them to special analyses and preferably with the most ambitiously objective scientific rigour possible. Then all explanation arises a posteriori; once the picture already exists as phenomenon.”

“Surrealism will at least have served to give experimental proof that total sterility and attempts at automatizations have gone too far and have led to a totalitarian system... Today's laziness and the total lack of technique have reached their paroxysm in the psychological signification of the current use of the college”

“When you are a genius, you do not have the right to die, because we are necessary for the progress of humanity..”

“In the first place, in 1950, I had a 'cosmic dream' in which I saw this image in colour and which in my dream represented the 'nucleus of the atom.' This nucleus later took on a metaphysical sense; I considered it 'the very unity of the universe,' the Christ!”

“Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear later.... when Europe will have restored its traditional monarchies.”

“I am capable of projecting myself into my little inner cinema... I free myself through a secret exit from the attempts to encircle my soul.”