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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
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
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
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[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
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[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.
— Salvador Dali
When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath
— Salvador Dali
Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.
— 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
The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
— Salvador Dali
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
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
— Salvador Dali
Let my enemies devour each other
— Salvador Dali
Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.
— Vincente Minnelli
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
I am not strange. I am just not normal.
— Salvador Dali
Drawing is the honesty of the art.
— Salvador Dali
Happy is he who causes a scandal
— Salvador Dali
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without winds.
— 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
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
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
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
Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!
— 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
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
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
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
— 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
Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
— Salvador Dali
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
— Salvador Dali
I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
— 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
I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
— Salvador Dali
The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets
— 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
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
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
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
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
