Quotes by Salvador Dali

About Salvador Dali:

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marqués de Dalí de Pubol was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain.
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Que hablen de uno, aunque sea bien

Salvador Dali

Soytarı olan ben değilim, deliliğini gizlemek için ciddiyet oyunu oynayan, şu aklın mantığın almayacağı ölçüde sinsi, bönlüğünden bile habersiz toplum.

Salvador Dali

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

Salvador Dali

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to r...

Salvador Dali

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.

Salvador Dali

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Salvador Dali

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Salvador Dali

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Salvador Dali

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

Salvador Dali

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

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There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

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

Salvador Dali

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.

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

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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

Salvador Dali

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.

Salvador Dali

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

Salvador Dali

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

Salvador Dali

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

Salvador Dali

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.

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Author Bio

  • NameSalvador Dali
  • DescriptionSpanish surrealist painter
  • AliasesSalvador Dali; Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech; Salvador Dalì
  • BornMay 11, 1904
  • DiedJanuary 23, 1989
  • CountrySpain
  • ProfessionPainter; Sculptor; Writer; Actor; Artist; Film Director
  • WorksThe Persistence Of Memory; Christ Of Saint John Of The Cross; The Sacrament Of The Last Supper
  • AwardsOrder Of Isabella The Catholic; Legion Of Honour