“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
— Salvador Dalí
“I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.”
“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.”
“A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.”
“I am not strange. I am just not normal.”
“Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.”
“There is only one difference between a madman and myself. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.”
“So little of what could happen does happen.”
“There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.”
“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”
“What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.”
“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”
“Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure: that of being 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.”
“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.”
“It's better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.”
“Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.”
“I’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.”
“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating: It is either good or bad. ”
“Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.”
“It is either easy or impossible.”
“Life is too short to remain unnoticed.”
“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.”
“Let my enemies devour each other.”
“To be interesting, one has to provoke.”
“Everything that is contradictory creates life.”
“Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.”
“God is just another artist, like me.”
“The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.”
“I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.”
“The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.”
“If I’m going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!”
“Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.”
“There comes a moment in every person’s life when they realise they adore me.”
“An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.”
“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.”
“If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.”
“You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.”
“If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.”
“All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.”
“The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.”
“For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.”
“People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.”
“Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.”
“Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.”
“Right now I’m the greatest. I don’t say this through vanity. It’s just that the rest are so bad.”
“We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.”
“The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.”
“Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.”
“Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.”
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