Salvador Dalí Quotes

It is good taste and good taste alone that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
Salvador Dalí
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Salvador Dalí
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Salvador Dalí
What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
Salvador Dalí
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
Salvador Dalí
The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!
Salvador Dalí
Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
Salvador Dalí
My mother's death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her... I could not resign myself to the loss of a being on whom I counted to make invisible the unavoidable blemishes of my soul.
Salvador Dalí
I tried sex once with a woman and it was Gala. It was overated. I tried sex once with a man and that man was the famous juggler Frederico Garcia Lorca. It was very painful.
Salvador Dalí
New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me, and that was young, virgin, and without drama, that of America. I traveled in America, but instead of romantically and directly rubbing the snakeskin of my body against the asperities of its terrain, I preferred to peel protected within the armor of the gleaming black crustacean of a Cadillac which I gave Gala as a present. Nevertheless all the men who admire and the women who are in love with my old skin will easily be able to find its remnants in shredded pieces of various sizes scattered to the winds along the roads from New York via Pittsburgh to California. I have peeled with every wind; pieces of my skin have remained caught here and there along my way, scattered through that "promised land" which is America; certain pieces of this skin have remained hanging in the spiny vegetation of the Arizona desert, along the trails where I galloped on horseback, where I got rid of all my former Aristotelian "planetary notions." Other pieces of my skin have remained spread out like tablecloths without food on the summits of the rocky masses by which one reaches the Salt Lake, in which the hard passion of the Mormons saluted in me the European phantom of Apollinaire. Still other pieces have remained suspended along the "antediluvian" bridge of San Francisco, where I saw in passing the ten thousand most beautiful virgins in America, completely naked, standing in line on each side of me as I passed, like two rows of organ-pipes of angelic flesh with cowrie-shell sea vulvas.
Salvador Dalí
Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
Salvador Dalí
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Salvador Dalí
This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
Salvador Dalí
People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
Salvador Dalí
Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
Salvador Dalí
An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
Salvador Dalí
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 Dalí
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dalí
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Salvador Dalí
«No es que yo sea bueno, es que los demás son tan malos que la comparación se revela imposible.»
Salvador Dalí
Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health.However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?"Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.
Salvador Dalí
The difference between false memories and true ones is thesame as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look themost real, the most brilliant.
Salvador Dalí
Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?
Salvador Dalí