Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise! — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad. — Salvador Dali Difference Copy Share Image
The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments — Salvador Dali Art Copy Share Image
It's better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life — Salvador Dali Art Copy Share Image
Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being. — Salvador Dali Art Copy Share Image
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. — Salvador Dali Jealousy Copy Share Image
The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are… — Salvador Dali Artist Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect… — Salvador Dali Artist Copy Share Image
One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the… — Salvador Dali Dream Copy Share Image
Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something… If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that,… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
I tried sex once with a woman and that woman was Gala. It was overrated. I tried sex once with a man… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy… — Salvador Dali Books Copy Share Image
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has… — Salvador Dali Age Copy Share Image
The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it. — Salvador Dali Inspirational Copy Share Image
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly. — Salvador Dali Artist Copy Share Image
There is only one difference between the madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. — Salvador Dali Insanity Copy Share Image
I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone. — Salvador Dali Food Copy Share Image
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision. — Salvador Dali Madman Copy Share Image
[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.' — Salvador Dali Art Copy Share Image
If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it. — Salvador Dali Artist Copy Share Image
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. — Salvador Dali Architecture Copy Share Image
“Dalí is one marvellous painter, but in living times he's one marvellous clown —more interesting for everybody.” — Salvador Dalí Artist Copy Share Image
The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image