Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquis of Dalí de Púbol was a Spanish surrealist artist. Born in Figueres, Catalonia, Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his work. Profoundly inspirational Salvador Dali quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.
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Famous Salvador Dali Quotes
Have no fear of perfection you’ll never reach it. Salvador Dali
I don’t do drugs. I am drugs. Salvador Dali
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. Salvador Dali
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 Dali
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 Dali
Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy the joy of being Salvador Dalí and I ask myself in rapture What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today? 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 Dali
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others. Salvador Dali
Let my enemies devour each other. Salvador Dali
What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it. Salvador Dalí
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. Salvador Dali
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. Salvador Dali
Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory. Salvador Dali
An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms. Salvador Dali
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. Salvador Dali
The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad! Salvador Dali
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 Dali
There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. Salvador Dalí
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. Salvador Dali
Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic. Salvador Dali
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. Salvador Dali
I am not strange. I am just not normal. Salvador Dalí
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. Salvador Dali
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. Salvador Dali
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret. Salvador Dali
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 Dali
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. Salvador Dali
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 Dali
Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic. Salvador Dali
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 Dali
I have Dalinian thought the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous. Salvador Dali
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 Dali
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. Salvador Dali
Everything alters me, but nothing changes me. Salvador Dali
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. Salvador Dali
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 Dali
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait. Salvador Dali
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. 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 Dali
So little of what could happen does happen. Salvador Dalí
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation. Salvador Dali
Let my enemies devour each other. Salvador Dali
Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid. Salvador Dali
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life. Salvador Dalí
I don’t do drugs. I am drugs. Salvador Dali
People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings. Salvador Dalí
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. Salvador Dali
Beauty should be edible, or not at all. Salvador Dalí
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure that of being Salvador Dali. Salvador Dali
Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams. Salvador Dalí
There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. Salvador Dali
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating It is either good or bad. Salvador Dali
The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad. Salvador Dali
It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week. 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 Dali
Everyone should eat hashish, but only once. Salvador Dali
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 Dali
Forever will be you and me. Dali
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 Dali
I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I’m never served a cooked telephone. Salvador Dalí
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. Salvador Dali
This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art. Salvador Dalí
We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant’s revolution, but one of the extreme Right. Salvador Dali
The reason some portraits don’t look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures. Salvador Dalí
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making. Salvador Dali
Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin! Salvador Dalí
I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it. Salvador Dali
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
An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms. 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 Dali
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
I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power. Salvador Dalí
Beauty should be edible, or not at all. Salvador Dalí
The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous. 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
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 Dali
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure that of being Salvador Dali. Salvador Dalí
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without winds. Salvador Dalí
Everyone should eat hashish, but only once. Salvador Dalí
I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties. Salvador Dalí
Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty two in dreams. 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
Happy is he who causes a scandal. Salvador Dalí
Surrealism is not a movement. It is a latent state of mind perceivable through the powers of dream and nightmare. Salvador Dalí
Have no fear of perfection you’ll never reach it. Salvador Dalí
My mother’s death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her. I could not resign myself to the loss of a being on whom I counted to make invisible the unavoidable blemishes of my soul. Salvador Dalí
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait. Salvador Dalí
When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another. Salvador Dalí
I don’t do drugs. I am drugs. Salvador Dalí
If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it. Salvador Dalí
I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power. Salvador Dalí
My mother’s death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her. I could not resign myself to the loss of a being on whom I counted to make invisible the unavoidable blemishes of my soul. Salvador Dalí
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. Salvador Dalí
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. 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
I am the Don Quixote of unreality. Salvador Dalí
It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week. Salvador Dalí
An unpredictable, faithful and objective hazard seems to have systematically singled out my life to make what are normally uneventful incidents violent, phenomenal and memorable. Salvador Dalí
