Contradictory Quotes by Salvador Dali

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…

— Salvador Dali

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

— Salvador Dali

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

— Salvador Dali

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

— Salvador Dali

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

— 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…

— Salvador Dali

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

— Salvador Dali

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete…

— Salvador Dali

It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures

— 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…

— Salvador Dali

To be interesting, one has to provoke.

— Salvador Dali

Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

— Salvador Dali