Salvador Dali famous quotes

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
-- Salvador Dali

#Art #Morning #Creativity

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
-- Salvador Dali

#Inspirational #Motivational #Art

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
-- Salvador Dali

#Artist #Inspire #Inspired

Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art
-- Salvador Dali

#Art #Frustration #Doe

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
-- Salvador Dali

#Life #Happiness #Happy

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
-- Salvador Dali

#Art #Creativity #Confusion

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
-- Salvador Dali

#Inspirational #Funny #Witty

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

#Funny #Witty #Work

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

#Clever #Flower #Artist

I am not strange. I am just not normal.
-- Salvador Dali

#Life #Normal #Strange

I do not take drugs. I am drugs.
-- Salvador Dali

#Drug

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

#Art #Serious

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

#Nature #Mistake #Design

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali

#Life #Beautiful #Art

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
-- Salvador Dali

#Modern #Modernism #Bother

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
-- Salvador Dali

#Tired #Knees #Grew

Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali.
-- Salvador Dali

#Morning #Awakening #Today

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
-- Salvador Dali

#Tattoo #Art #Personality

Let my enemies devour each other.
-- Salvador Dali

#Artist #Enemy

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

#Love #Memories #Real

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
-- Salvador Dali

#Funny #Music #Sarcastic

It is either easy or impossible.
-- Salvador Dali

#Impossible #Easy

For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
-- Salvador Dali

#Beautiful #Ugly #Looks

The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind.
-- Salvador Dali

#Sleep #Life And Death #Different

Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us
-- Salvador Dali

#Progress #Genius #Mankind

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

#Art #Character #People

Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
-- Salvador Dali

#Nonsense #Should

Happy is he who causes a scandal
-- Salvador Dali

#Scandal #Causes

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

#Creativity #Design #Creative

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
-- Salvador Dali

#Artist #Drug

Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
-- Salvador Dali

#Paint #Masters #Draws

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
-- Salvador Dali

#People #Mystery #Painting

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
-- Salvador Dali

#Life #Hipster #Epic

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

#Dream #Reality #One Day

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
-- Salvador Dali

#Habit #Revelations #Democratic

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
-- Salvador Dali

#Hurt #War #Artist

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
-- Salvador Dali

#Understanding #Might #Painting

The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets
-- Salvador Dali

#Wine #Secret #Taste

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
-- Salvador Dali

#Cheating #Art #Honesty

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

#Art #Hungry #Thirsty

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
-- Salvador Dali

#Desire #Artistic #Fear Of Death

Qui sait déguster ne boit plus jamais de vin, mais goûte des secrets
-- Salvador Dali

#Wine #Secret #Plus

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
-- Salvador Dali

#Artist #World #Scandal

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

#Dream #Wall #Eye

Life is too short to remain unnoticed
-- Salvador Dali

#Life #Too Short #Unnoticed

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
-- Salvador Dali

#Clever #Artist #Thinking

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
-- Salvador Dali

#Art #Secret #Influence

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
-- Salvador Dali

#Photography #Vision #Shackles

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
-- Salvador Dali

#Confusion #Important #Anarchy

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
-- Salvador Dali

#Art #Portraits #Doe

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
-- Salvador Dali

#Beauty #Art #Architecture

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 Dali

#Art #Perspective #Genius