An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
Qui sait déguster ne boit plus jamais de vin, mais goûte des secrets
Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.
The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
Whatever happens, my audience mustn't know whether I am spoofing or being serious; and likewise I mustn't know either. I am in a constant interrogation; when does the deep and philosophically valid Dali begin, and where does the looney and preposterous Dali end?
Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!
I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets
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.
Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
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?
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.
Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
It is either easy or impossible.
Forever will be you and me.
Let my enemies devour each other.
Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
I tried sex once with a woman and that woman was Gala. It was overrated. I tried sex once with a man and that man was the famous juggler Federico Garcia Lorca [the Spanish Surrealist poet]. It was very painful.
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.
You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity. You know, Dali spent two months in jail in Spain, and these two months were the most enjoyable and happy in my life. Before my jail period, I was always nervous, anxious. I didn't know if I should make a drawing, or perhaps make a poem, or go to the movies or the theatre, or catch a girl, or play with the boys. The people put me in jail, and my life became divine. Tremendous!
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