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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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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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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Happy is he who causes a scandal.
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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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I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
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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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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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I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
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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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We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.
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The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.
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[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.
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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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Life is too short to remain unnoticed.
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I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
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Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead.
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Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.
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The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.