Words matter. These are the best Salvador Dali Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant’s revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
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.
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.
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.
Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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.
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.
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.
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.