Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali.
Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.
I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali
I do not believe in my death.
Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!
I will be sof brief, I have already finished.
I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.
I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't cook and will. There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.
Drawing is the honesty of the art.
When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.
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 rise from the dust.
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.
Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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