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If I had a Salvador Dali painting, I would cuddle it to sleep. -- Mac Miller
Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life. -- Vincente Minnelli
All of my heroes, like Dali, are people who pioneered various forms of cinema. -- Marilyn Manson
I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist. -- Billy Connolly
Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny. -- Joe Grant
Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish. -- Steven Wright
Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue. -- Andre Breton
I did this movie about Salvador Dali a few years ago and had hair extensions and a little bob. That was incredibly bizarre. -- Robert Pattinson
Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart. -- LL Cool J
From 17 to 21, I was obsessed by sport and art. In art, I loved the pre-Raphaelites and Rembrandt first. Then I discovered Salvador Dali, and it was like finding something I already knew. -- Anthony Browne
I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down. -- Gene Fowler
I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me. -- Jerry Hall
It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more. -- Alice Cooper
I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly. -- John le Carre
But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt believed in himself, and he was optimistic about what he wanted to do. He just knew it will be okay, and Dali was the same way. They had a great deal in common that way. -- John Hench
If I'm doing a logo, I'll do it in black and white. Once the form is feeling right, only then do I start exploring the color palettes. A good example was the process of rebranding the Salvador Dali Museum. I did at least 100 versions in black and white. -- David Carson
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali. -- Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt. -- Tom Robbins
Sometimes you're quite fortunate, being on the stage, getting to meet people like Salvador Dali. -- Bryan Ferry
One thing I learned from his holiness the Dali Lama is the importance of humor. -- Marina Abramovic
There's a peculiar porcelain bathtub in a field; almost as though it has been placed there for Salvador Dali to come and capture. -- Tom Chesshyre
Playing Augusta is like playing a Salvador Dali landscape. I expected a clock to fall out of the trees and hit me in the face. -- David Feherty
He joked while Dali cut him, mangling the words with his monstrous jaws, snarled with a pretended rage and dramatically promised to "kirrrl youraaalll for this! -- Ilona Andrews
Schiaparelli's collaborations with Dali and Cocteau as well as Prada's Fondazione Prada push art and fashion ever closer, in a direct, synergistic, and culturally redefining relationship. -- Thomas P. Campbell
All in Dali is indeed contrived, a brilliant illustration of his own psyche as he understands it, as opposed to how it truly may have been. -- Wendy Beckett
He joked while Dali cut him, mangling the words with his monstrous jaws, snarled with a pretended rage and dramatically promised to kirrrl youraaalll for this! -- Ilona Andrews
I dream in colour, and its always very surreal. My dream world is complete Hieronymus Bosch and Dali. I love it, I look forward to it every night -- John Lennon
Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why. -- Robert Plant
Dali likes me taking his picture because he is interested in pictures that do not simply reproduce reality. Even in photos he prefers to appear outside reality .That is surrealistic! -- Philippe Halsman
How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to say Leonardo only worked from photographs. -- Jean Cocteau
Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being true kitsch, which always strives to please. -- Denis Dutton
Dali Lama said, 'when you open the heart of the person with humor, you can tell him the most truth. But if you tell him truth without humor, the heart closes.' -- Marina Abramovic
Luis Bunuel's two semishort surrealist hand grenades (cowritten in varying degrees with Salvador Dali) make a double bill that can restore your faith in the subversions of youth. Pure Spanish-Parisian piss and vinegar. -- Luis Bunuel
yes, i have dated Salvador Dali guy when i was a high school girl. he was a great lover. but i had to dump him because he stole my inspiration of bent clock*~* .... who cares... -- Hiroko Sakai
I've got a very wide taste in art. I like Russian icon painters. I like Salvador Dali. It's like music. Sometimes you want to hear Led Zeppelin, and sometimes you want to hear Stravinsky. It just depends. -- Peter Webber
Where is automatism in the work of Chirico or Tanguy? Even Dali had to renounce it in order to be able to organize the space of the canvas according to the combined laws of dreams and pictorial aesthetics. -- Dumitru Tepeneag
Salvador [Dali] was brought up in Spain, a country colored by the legends of Hannibal, El Greco, and Cervantes. I was brought up in Ohio, a region steeped in the tradition of Coxey's Army, the Anti-Saloon League, and William Howard Taft. -- James Thurber
The Dali Lama and other notable Buddhist teachers have now indicated that since the world has plunged into a dark age, the information available in the tantras, which include the very, very powerful Kundalini release techniques, should be made available to the public. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The Dali Lama and other notable Buddhist teachers have now indicated that since the world has plunged into a dark age, the information available in the tantras, which include the very, very powerful Kundalini release techniques, should be made available to the public. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I think what inspires me is in a constant state of flux...it's easier to stick to photographers and perhaps cinematographers, though the great medieval, Mannerist, and Baroque painters of Italian, Spanish, Flemish, and German origin are a constant source of inspiration, along with select modernists like Dali. -- Anton Yelchin
You need a name." I covered the receiver for a moment. "We need a team name." "Hunters," Raphael said. "Valiant Knights of the Fur," Dali said. "Justice Group," Jim said. "Since Justice League is taken." "Fools." Doolittle shook his head. "Fools," I said into the receiver. -- Ilona Andrews
Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis. -- Salvador Dali
Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali... -- Salvador Dali
The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali -- Salvador Dali
Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali. -- Salvador Dali
Whatever happens, my audience mustn't know whether I am spoofing or being serious; and likewise I mustn't know either. I am in a constant interrogation; when does the deep and philosophically valid Dali begin, and where does the looney and preposterous Dali end? -- Salvador Dali

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