Salvador Dali Quotes

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali

Intelligence, Ambition, Bird

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

Fear, Perfection, Reach

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

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

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

Between, Mad, Difference

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, Mistakes, Understand

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

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

Vision, Surrealism, Destroys

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

Success, Jealousy, Merely

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

True, Real, Same

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

Nothing, Imitate, Produce

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

Age, Wanted, Ambition

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

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

Morning, Experience, Again

Let my enemies devour each other.
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

Dreams, Through, Eyes

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

Respect, Love, Good

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

Tired, Almost, Ugliness

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

Art, Painting, Minute

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

Between, Mad, Difference

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

Thought, Enough, Outrageous

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

Good, Power, Alone

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

Work, Art, Society

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

Cannot, Whatever, Avoid

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

Person, Rather, Grow

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Type: Artist

Born: May 11, 1904

Died: January 23, 1989

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