Quotes by Salvador Dali

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

— Salvador Dali

Courage

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

— Salvador Dali

Wisdom

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

— Salvador Dali

Wisdom

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

— Salvador Dali

Truth

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

— Salvador Dali

Wisdom

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

— Salvador Dali

Wisdom

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

— Salvador Dali

Wisdom

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

— Salvador Dali

Wisdom

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

Hope

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

Wisdom

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

— Salvador Dali

Wisdom

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

— Salvador Dali

Wisdom

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

— Salvador Dali

Wisdom

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

— Salvador Dali

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

Let my enemies devour each other.

— Salvador Dali

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.

— Salvador Dali

Wisdom

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

— Salvador Dali

Wisdom

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

— Salvador Dali

Wisdom

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

Love

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

— Salvador Dali

Success