1904-1989, Spanish Painter
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 – [Ambition]
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
Salvador Dali – [Autobiography]
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
Salvador Dali – [Modern and Modernism]
Have no fear of perfection-you'll never reach it.
Salvador Dali – [Perfection]
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Salvador Dali – [Painters and Painting]
I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
Salvador Dali – [Scandal]
I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
Salvador Dali – [Ugliness]
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 – [Respectability]
It is either easy or impossible.
Salvador Dali – [Arts and Artists]
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 – [Taste]
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 – [Mistakes]
Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
Salvador Dali – [Drugs]
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 – [Memory]
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 – [Originality]
The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.
Salvador Dali – [Madness]
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
Salvador Dali – [Influence]
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador Dali – [Architecture]
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Salvador Dali – [Contentment]
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
Salvador Dali – [Arts and Artists]
This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
Salvador Dali – [Arts and Artists]