Salvador Dali Quotes
Surrealist Painter
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Let my enemies devour each other.
I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
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.
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
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.
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 only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.