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
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Salvador Dali Quotes |
Salvador Dalí
Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
Salvador Dalí
Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
Salvador Dalí
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating: It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dalí
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali.
Salvador Dalí
Forever will be you and me.
Salvador Dalí
Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
Salvador Dalí
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Salvador Dalí
I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
Salvador Dalí
I am not strange. I am just not normal.
Salvador Dalí
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.
Salvador Dalí
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dalí
Let my enemies devour each other
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
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.
Salvador Dalí
People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
Salvador Dalí
Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health.
Salvador Dalí
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Salvador Dalí
This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
Salvador Dalí
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Salvador Dalí
Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic
Salvador Dalí
The only difference between me and a madman is I'm not mad.
Salvador Dalí
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Salvador Dalí
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
Salvador Dalí
What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
Salvador Dalí
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.
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
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
Salvador Dalí