Top 100 Salvador Dalí Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”

— Salvador Dalí

2. “I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.”

— Salvador Dalí

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3. “Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.”

— Salvador Dalí

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4. “A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.”

— Salvador Dalí

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5. “I am not strange. I am just not normal.”

— Salvador Dalí

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6. “There is only one difference between a madman and myself. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.”

— Salvador Dalí

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7. “Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.”

— Salvador Dalí

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8. “So little of what could happen does happen.”

— Salvador Dalí

9. “Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”

— Salvador Dalí

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

— Salvador Dalí

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11. “What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.”

— Salvador Dalí

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

— Salvador Dalí

13. “Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali.”

— Salvador Dalí

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

— Salvador Dalí

15. “Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.”

— Salvador Dalí

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16. “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 Dalí

17. “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 Dalí

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18. “I’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.”

— Salvador Dalí

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

— Salvador Dalí

20. “Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.”

— Salvador Dalí

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21. “Life is too short to remain unnoticed.”

— Salvador Dalí

22. “It is either easy or impossible.”

— Salvador Dalí

23. “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.”

— Salvador Dalí

24. “Let my enemies devour each other.”

— Salvador Dalí

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25. “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.”

— Salvador Dalí

26. “To be interesting, one has to provoke.”

— Salvador Dalí

27. “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 Dalí

28. “I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.”

— Salvador Dalí

29. “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.”

— Salvador Dalí

30. “The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.”

— Salvador Dalí

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

— Salvador Dalí

32. “There comes a moment in every person’s life when they realise they adore me.”

— Salvador Dalí

33. “Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.”

— Salvador Dalí

34. “Everything that is contradictory creates life.”

— Salvador Dalí

35. “An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.”

— Salvador Dalí

36. “God is just another artist, like me.”

— Salvador Dalí

37. “The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.”

— Salvador Dalí

38. “The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.”

— Salvador Dalí

39. “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!”

— Salvador Dalí

40. “All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.”

— Salvador Dalí

41. “Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.”

— Salvador Dalí

42. “If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.”

— Salvador Dalí

43. “The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.”

— Salvador Dalí

44. “For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.”

— Salvador Dalí

45. “Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.”

— Salvador Dalí

46. “Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.”

— Salvador Dalí

47. “Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.”

— Salvador Dalí

48. “People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.”

— Salvador Dalí

49. “Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead.”

— Salvador Dalí

50. “Beauty should be edible, or not at all.”

— Salvador Dalí