Quotes by
Salvador Dali |
1904-1989 , Spanish painter
Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his striking and bizarre images in his work. | 50 quotes | 1,818 visits |
Quotations
| • | Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. 7 |
| • | Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. 6 |
| • | The only problem with the youth of today is that we are no longer part of it. 6 |
| • | The only difference between a madman and me is that I am not mad. 6 |
| • | The Russian Revolution is the French Revolution which arrived late, because of the cold. 5 |
| • | Don't be afraid of perfection, you will never achieve it. 5 |
| • | 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. 5 |
| • | There are days when I think I'm going to die of an overdose of complacency. 4 |
| • | The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret. 4 |
| • | I don't do drugs. I am drugs. 3 |
| • | This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art… 3 |
| • | 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. |
