There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Salvador DaliRead
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.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the joy and anticipation of creativity each day brings to the artist Salvador Dali.
Salvador Dali's quote captures the thrill and excitement he feels each morning as he embraces his identity and the endless possibilities of his artistry. It reflects a deep appreciation for the creative process, highlighting the joy of being fully immersed in one's passion and the unique potential each day holds for artistic expression and discovery.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing creativity in your daily life.
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?" Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.
Let 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!
The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.
Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
It’s such a fun job, and it can be silly and light and about making people laugh. I think I was doing it a disservice by thinking it’s not something ultimately important. I always was saying, ‘I’m not saving lives; I’m not a brain surgeon.’ And that’s true—I’m not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and that’s a pretty important task.
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?
Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do.
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