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Salvador Dali

1904-1989 ,  Spanish painter
Salvador DaliSpanish surrealist artist renowned for his striking and bizarre images in his work.

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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

The only problem with the youth of today is that we are no longer part of it.

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

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

The Russian Revolution is the French Revolution which arrived late, because of the cold.

Don't be afraid of perfection, you will never achieve it.

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.

There are days when I think I'm going to die of an overdose of complacency.

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

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art…

I'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die.

Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.

When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.

It is either easy or impossible.

Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dalí.

There comes a moment in every person's life when they realize they adore me.

Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.

I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appearing on my canvas.

God is just another artist, like me.

The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert of time and space.

My entire life has been determined by two competing ideas: the top and the bottom.

The least you can ask of a sculpture is that it does not move.

Love starts with the head, and it ends with three small drops in the pee pipe.

Like the lobsters, the young girls have the exquisite exterior. Like lobsters, they turn red when you want to make them edible.

Mistakes are almost always sacred. Never try to correct them.

The jealousy of other painters has always been the thermometer of my success.

Criticism is a sublime thing. It is worthy only of geniuses.

I sat ugliness in my lap
and almost immediately got tired of it.


Everything influences me, nothing changes me.

Snobbery is always being able to place oneself in places where others do not have access.

The one thing the world can never get enough of is hype.

Painting is the visible side of the iceberg of my thinking.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

Le surréalisme, c'est moi.

An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.

So little of what could happen does happen.

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

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

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

Life is too short to remain unnoticed.

I am not strange. I am just not normal.

Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to take care of it, a lucid poet to produce it, and a lover to drink it.

Dali: a Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.

Each participation is the birth of a memory.

Where is my watch?

(his last words)


Funny Quotes

I shall be so brief that I have already finished.

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.


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