Salvador Dali Quotes

Biography: Salvador Dalí is known for his surrealist paintings characterized by ... more Biography: Salvador Dalí is known for his surrealist paintings characterized by dreamlike scenes and bizarre images. Born in Figueres, Spain, on May 11, 1904, he became one of the most famous and eccentric artists of the 20th century. Dalí’s most iconic work, "The Persistence of Memory," features melting clocks. less

"Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.""Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.""I don't do drugs. I am drugs""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""There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad""The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas""Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die ""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 ""Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali ""Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health ""The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.""The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.""I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.""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.""It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.""Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.""Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.""The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.""They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.""Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."

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