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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.
There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me.
An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future
For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.
Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead
Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali.
Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'
I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!
Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.
The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.
Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.
The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.
The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.