All Quotes

“Dali is striving then for a rational approach of his paintings; he is very probably referring to his painting, he made earlier in 1927: ' Little Ashes'”

“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. Quote from his poem 'Sant Sebastia', Salvador Dali 1927”

“One morning with Ripolin [French paint] I painted a new”

“So, André Breton , if tonight I dream I am screwing you, tomorrow morning I will paint all of our best fucking positions with the greatest wealth of detail. Quote, early 1930's; as quoted by Jonathan Jones in his article 'André in wonderland'; The Guardian / Culture, 16 June, 2004”

“In the early 1930's Dalí was judged by a surrealist 'high court' at André Breton 's flat; Dali was accused of 'counter”

“One might think that through ecstasy we would have access to a world as far from reality as that of the dream.”

“The Italian metaphysical movement [initiated by De Chirico ] started from the spiritual reality, a consequence of the physical miracle and it aspects grouped on an immaterial plane; all this formed a new spectral reality, in order to attain maximal, almost erotic creativity in touch. The Cubists , on the other hand, starting from this sensual”

“It is under such cultural circumstances that our contemporaries, systematically cretinised by the mechanicism and the architecture of auto”

“A decir verdad Dios no parece necesitar razones para hacer lo que hace y para omitir lo que omite, al igual que sus criaturas”

“Nuestro tiempo es tan excitante que a las personas solo puede chocarnos el aburrimiento”

“No puede pensar sin su sombrero”

“Todo hombre puede ser, si se lo propone, escultor de su propio cerebro.”

“Las neuronas son las letras del alfabeto del pensamiento.”

“La paciencia es la madre de la ciencia.”

“El asombro es el motor del conocimiento.”

“Seneca the Elder”

“Seneca the Younger”

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

“The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”

“If a man knows not which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”

“A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.”

“We say booty. I'm not quite sure about 'posterior'. I'll try to keep that in the back of my mind. 'What are you doing?' 'I'm shaking my posterior.' 2008”

“Andy Murray , he's been joking about myself and him playing a match. I'm like, 'Andy, seriously, are you kidding me?' For me, mens' tennis and womens' tennis are completely, almost, two separate sports. If I were to play Andy Murray, I would lose 6”

“Serena Williams Official Website”

“I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.”

“The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up.”