Salvador Dali Quotes
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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.
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I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
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It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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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.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
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There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
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Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
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The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
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[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.
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Photographic data... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which exist between reality and surreality. The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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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.
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Life is too short to remain unnoticed.
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The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.
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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.
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It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
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Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead.
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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.