Salvador Dali Quotes

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.

I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.

I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.

What do I see when I look in the mirror? One handsome man. No, I see the same person I have seen for the last 27 years: the person I believed I could be when I was a child, the person I have inspired and dreamed to be all my life, and that's the person I have seen, from being that big to as big as the roof - the same guy.

I don't really look like people in films; I look like people in paintings.

There was no image of the other biological half of myself. And as an artists, as a - as an - as a portraitist, the look of who you are was radically important to me.

You are the imagination of yourself.

Act like the person you conceive yourself to be.

Who is that girl I see, staring straight back at me? When will my reflection show who I am inside?

Did you ever wonder if the person in the picture is the same one you see when you look in the mirror?" - "That's the eternal question, isn't it? Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?

I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.

I have no issues with my identity.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.

We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

My success is not who I am.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think maybe I'm a serious person who secretly wants to be funny.

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.