Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
Life is too short to remain unnoticed
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.
I am not strange. I am just not normal.
Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
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.
To be interesting, one has to provoke.
If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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 this Salvador Dalí is going to accomplish today?
I do not take drugs. I am drugs.
So little of what could happen does happen.
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.
There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me.
I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
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