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?

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

The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it...

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...

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

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.

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant’s revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

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

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.

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

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...

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

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

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

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

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

Que hablen de uno, aunque sea bien

I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.

Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

La gente debería verse más como sus retratos y menos como en la vida real

Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.

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.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

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

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

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...

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

Let my enemies devour each other.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

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...

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

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

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

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

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

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

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

Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

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

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.

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...

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

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.