Salvador Dali
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.Collection: Jealousy
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.Collection: Good
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.Collection: Morning
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.Collection: Intelligence
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.Collection: Imagination
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.Collection: Good
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Nature
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.Collection: Art
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.Collection: Respect
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.Collection: Power
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.Collection: War
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.Collection: Power
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.Collection: Age
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.Collection: Dreams
Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.Collection: Money
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.Collection: Fear
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.Collection: Society
I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
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.
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
Let my enemies devour each other.
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.
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.Collection: Artist
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates lifeCollection: Art
Life is too short to remain unnoticedCollection: Life
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.Collection: Dream
I am not strange. I am just not normal.Collection: Life
The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.Collection: Mean
Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.Collection: Knowing
To be interesting, one has to provoke.Collection: Interesting
I do not take drugs. I am drugs.Collection: Drug
So little of what could happen does happen.Collection: Doe
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.Collection: Wise
Everything that is contradictory creates lifeCollection: Contradictory
If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.Collection: Understanding
There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me.Collection: Moments
Qui sait déguster ne boit plus jamais de vin, mais goûte des secretsCollection: Wine
Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.Collection: Inspiring