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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it. — Salvador Dali

Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses. — Salvador Dali

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory. — Salvador Dali

Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch. — Salvador Dali

Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being. — Salvador Dali

God is just another artist, like me. — Salvador Dali

Think of my rants and posts as they would come from Edgar, Vincent, and Dali. — Solange Nicole

For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful. — Salvador Dali

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

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone. — Salvador Dali

Like Salvador Dali's paintings of watches melting in the sand, time wanders at its own curious pace whenever you're on vacation in a foreign country. — Laurie Nadel

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.' — Salvador Dali

Playing Augusta is like playing a Salvador Dali landscape. I expected a clock to fall out of the trees and hit me in the face. — David Feherty

[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man. — Salvador Dali

When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath — Salvador Dali

All of my heroes, like Dali, are people who pioneered various forms of cinema. — Marilyn Manson

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

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

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it. — Salvador Dali

The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali — Salvador Dali

Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius — Salvador Dali

I will be sof brief, I have already finished. — Salvador Dali

Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise! — Salvador Dali

All in Dali is indeed contrived, a brilliant illustration of his own psyche as he understands it, as opposed to how it truly may have been. — Wendy Beckett

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making. — Salvador Dali

Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most. — Salvador Dali

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

Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us — Salvador Dali

I don't take drugs: I am drugs. — Salvador Dali

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. — Salvador Dali

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire. — Salvador Dali

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

Let my enemies devour each other — Salvador Dali

I am not strange. I am just not normal. — Salvador Dali

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

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life. — Vincente Minnelli

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

I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power. — Salvador Dali

I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist. — Billy Connolly

Surrealism is not a movement. It is a latent state of mind perceivable through the powers of dream and nightmare. — Salvador Dali

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

Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality ... — Salvador Dali

If I had a Salvador Dali painting, I would cuddle it to sleep. — Mac Miller

There's a peculiar porcelain bathtub in a field; almost as though it has been placed there for Salvador Dali to come and capture. — Tom Chesshyre

Happy is he who causes a scandal — Salvador Dali

Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead — Salvador Dali

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments — Salvador Dali

Drawing is the honesty of the art. — Salvador Dali

To be interesting, one has to provoke. — Salvador Dali

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. — Salvador Dali

So little of what could happen does happen. — Salvador Dali

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself. — Salvador Dali

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

Salvador Dali, lying on his deathbed in a stupor, is said to have been fed thousands of sheets of blank paper to sign for fake lithographs. — Peter Landesman

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. — Salvador Dali

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

And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God. — Salvador Dali

I never took drugs, because I am drugs — Salvador Dali

Sometimes you're quite fortunate, being on the stage, getting to meet people like Salvador Dali. — Bryan Ferry

Precaution the Cuticle of a Grand Piano. Modern art [by Salvador Dali]. — Joan Wehlen Morrison

The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous. — 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 don't do drugs. I am drugs. — Salvador Dali

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right. — Salvador Dali

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

Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt. — Tom Robbins

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue. — Andre Breton

I do not believe in my death. — Salvador Dali

Forever will be you and me. — Salvador Dali

Was a combo of Sal Dali and Ronald McDonald. A fringe celeb wheeled out for Tv appearances. — Saira Viola

Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes! — Salvador Dali

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. — Salvador Dali

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams. — Salvador Dali

Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all. — Salvador Dali

Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it. — Salvador Dali

I do not take drugs. I am drugs. — Salvador Dali

Consort," I said. "You honor us."
"Fuck you," Dali said. "Fuck your shit. I quit. — Ilona Andrews

I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas. — Salvador Dali

Everything alters me, but nothing changes me. — Salvador Dali

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting. — Salvador Dali

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without winds. — Salvador Dali

The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless. — Salvador Dali

The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space. — Salvador Dali

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art. — Salvador Dali

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

Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future — Salvador Dali

Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision ... — Salvador Dali

I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work. — Salvador Dali

Life is too short to remain unnoticed — Salvador Dali

Beauty should be edible, or not at all. — Salvador Dali

The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets — Salvador Dali

The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad. — Salvador Dali

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

I did this movie about Salvador Dali a few years ago and had hair extensions and a little bob. That was incredibly bizarre. — Robert Pattinson

If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything! — Salvador Dali

Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I. — Salvador Dali

Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure. — Salvador Dali

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish. — Steven Wright

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

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