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
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. – Salvador Dali
Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums. – 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
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
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
I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous. – Salvador Dali
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. – Salvador Dali
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali. – 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
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
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
