A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Life is too short to remain unnoticed
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
I am not strange. I am just not normal.
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.
Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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.
I do not take drugs. I am drugs.
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?
So little of what could happen does happen.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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.
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 aspect of mustaches.
There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me.
The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.
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