Salvador Dalí quotes

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. (Salvador Dalí)
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.
Salvador Dalí
I don't do drugs. I'm drugs.
Salvador Dalí
A man without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Salvador Dalí
What is an elegant woman? An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and who has no hair under her arms.
Salvador Dalí
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Salvador Dalí
Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
Salvador Dalí
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
Salvador Dalí
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.
Salvador Dalí
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dalí
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret. (Salvador Dalí)
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.
Salvador Dalí
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.
Salvador Dalí
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Salvador Dalí
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.
Salvador Dalí
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
Salvador Dalí
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Salvador Dalí
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Salvador Dalí
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dalí
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.
Salvador Dalí
If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius. (Salvador Dalí)
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.
Salvador Dalí
Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision..
Salvador Dalí
You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity. You know, Dalí spent two months in jail in Spain, and these two months were the most enjoyable and happy in my life. Before my jail period, I was always nervous, anxious. I didn't know if I should make a drawing, or perhaps make a poem, or go to the movies or the theater, or catch a girl, or play with the boys. The people put me in jail, and my life became divine. Tremendous!
Salvador Dalí
Let my enemies devour each other.
Salvador Dalí