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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Quote

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
- Salvador Dali Quote

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

Let my enemies devour each other.
- Salvador Dali Quote

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.
- Salvador Dali Quote

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 can propel people toward social emancipation.
- Salvador Dali Quote

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
- Salvador Dali Quote

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.
- Salvador Dali Quote

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.
- Salvador Dali Quote

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

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
- Salvador Dali Quote

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
- Salvador Dali Quote

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

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
- Salvador Dali Quote

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
- Salvador Dali Quote

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.
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