Salvador Dali
The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind.Collection: Sleep
I don't take drugs: I am drugs.Collection: Spiritual
Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.Collection: Real
Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.Collection: Men
When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bathCollection: Sea
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.Collection: Knowledge
It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my picturesCollection: Blood
Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.Collection: Artist
Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses.Collection: Hero
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!Collection: Life
I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.Collection: Profound
Genius has to pass over madness and madness over geniusCollection: Genius
I do not believe in my death.Collection: Believe
Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.Collection: Reality
Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.Collection: Mother
I will be sof brief, I have already finished.Collection: Finished
Happy is he who causes a scandalCollection: Scandal
Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.Collection: Art
The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentimentsCollection: Sad Life
[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.Collection: Men
Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.Collection: Paint
The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called DaliCollection: Two
There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't cook and will. There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.Collection: Differences
Drawing is the honesty of the art.Collection: Art
When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.Collection: Doubt
Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali.Collection: Morning
Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!Collection: Photography
Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets insteadCollection: Wine
Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on usCollection: Progress
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.Collection: Morning
This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.Collection: Art
Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.Collection: Sex
God invented man, and man invented the metric system.Collection: Men
Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!Collection: Discovery
I don't need drugs. I am drugs.Collection: Drug
Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.Collection: Should
[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'Collection: Art
The world of the cinema and of painting are very different; precisely, the possibilities of photography and the cinema reside in that unlimited fantasy which is born of things themselves... a piece of sugar can become on the screen larger than an infinite perspective of gigantic buildings.Collection: Photography
Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.Collection: Art
New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.Collection: Land
I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties.Collection: Writing
Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch.Collection: Clerks
Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear later... when Europe will have restored its traditional monarchies.Collection: Government
The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.Collection: Differences
I shall be so brief that I have already finished.Collection: Finished
The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.Collection: Ideas
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.Collection: Mistake
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 this Salvador Dalí is going to accomplish today?Collection: Morning
It is either easy or impossible.Collection: Art