Salvador Dalí > Quotes

“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
― Salvador Dali

“I don't do drugs. I am drugs.”
― Salvador Dali

“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.”
― Salvador Dali

“Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?”
― Salvador Dalí

“A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.”
― Salvador Dali

“What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.”
― Salvador Dalí

“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”
― Salvador Dali

“An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.”
― Salvador Dali, The Secret Life Of Salvador Dali

“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.”
― Salvador Dalí, Dalí's Mustache

“The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!”
― Salvador Dali

“There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.”
― Salvador Dalí

“I am not strange. I am just not normal.”
― Salvador Dalí

“Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic”
― Salvador Dali

“The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.”
― Salvador Dali

“The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.”
― Salvador Dali

“The difference between false memories and true ones is the
same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the
most real, the most brilliant.”
― Salvador Dali

“One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.”
― Salvador Dali

“It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.”
― Salvador Dali

“Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.”
― Salvador Dali

“Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.”
― Salvador Dali

“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”
― Salvador Dalí

“So little of what could happen does happen.”
― Salvador Dalí

“Let my enemies devour each other”
― Salvador Dali

“You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life”
― Salvador Dalí

“People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.”
― Salvador Dalí

“Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.”
― Salvador Dalí

“Beauty should be edible, or not at all.”
― Salvador Dalí

“The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.”
― salvador dali

“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating: It is either good or bad. ”
― Salvador Dali

“It's better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.”
― Salvador Dalí