Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali

PAINTER

Surrealist artist known for such works as his painting The Persistence of Memory, which depicts a melting clock and other dreamlike images. His eccentric and flamboyant appearance included a mustache that was inspired by Diego Velazquez, the 17th century Spanish painter.

  • When was
    Salvador Dali born?

    Salvador Dali was born on Wednesday, May 11, 1904

  • Where was
    Salvador Dali born?

    Salvador Dali was born in Figueres, Spain

  • How old is
    Salvador Dali?

    Salvador Dali is 119

Best Quotes

  • 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.
  • The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
  • Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
  • The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
  • Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
  • 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.
  • The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
  • There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
  • The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
  • The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad

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