There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Salvador DaliRead
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
Interpretation
Painting reflects a small yet significant aspect of Dali's identity.
In this quote, Salvador Dali expresses that while painting is a vital form of expression for him, it only represents a tiny fraction of his entire being. This underscores the complexity of identity and the myriad influences and experiences that shape an artist, suggesting that their work may only hint at the deeper layers of their personality.
In practice
Using this quote in an art exhibition to highlight the multifaceted nature of artists.
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.
Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance.
Increasingly, the work I'm doing is in service to an idea rather than just to see what something looks like photographed. I'm trying to explore how I feel about something through photography.
I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, _x000D_ the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered-_x000D_ as a storyteller. A good storyteller.
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.
The advice I would give to any photographer - young, old or in-between - is to explore anything visual because this is, after all, how you express your artistry. Look at paintings, movies, drawings, sculptures - look at anything visual and try to integrate that into your visual sense. After that, go out and take pictures and keep on taking pictures!
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