Dont bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid. – Salvador Dali
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. – Salvador Dali
I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it. – Salvador Dali
The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad. – Salvador Dali
I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous. – Salvador Dali
Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic. – Salvador Dali
Have no fear of perfection – youll never reach it. – Salvador Dali
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. – 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
Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory. – Salvador Dali
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. – Salvador Dali
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. – Salvador 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
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali. – Salvador Dali
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
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
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
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. – Salvador Dali
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. – Salvador Dali
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. – Salvador Dali