Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
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… — Salvador Dali Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
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 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 been growing… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image