Quotes from Salvador Dali

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

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.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.

Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.

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?

Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali.

Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.

God is just another artist, like me.

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

Drawing is the honesty of the art.

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

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

I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.

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 is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?

«No es que yo sea bueno, es que los demás son tan malos que la comparación se revela imposible.»

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.

Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.