Quotes from Salvador Dali

I have always been an anarchist and a monarchist.

I still had to invent and write a great philosophic work, which I had begun a year before, and which was called, "The Tower of Babel." I had already written five hundred pages of it, and I was still only on the Prologue! At this period my sexual anxiety disappeared almost completely, and the philosophic theories of my book took up all the room in my psychic activity.

Dangus - nei aukštai, nei žemai, nei dešin?je, nei kair?je, Dangus yra žmogaus, kuris Tiki, širdyje.

I never took drugs, because I am drugs

Empiece por aprender a dibujar y pintar como los viejos maestros. Después de eso, puede hacer lo que quiera; todos te respetarán. Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.

I always paint those vast sandy expanses that go as far as the eye can see. I don't know why; I have never been in North Africa. I suppose it's an atavism of the Arab blood.

Oslové by cht?li, abych dodržoval rady, které vyhlašuji pro ostatní. To je nemožné, já jsem totiž zcela odlišný.

Que nosso fogo interno esteja ao máximo, para esquentar a regra ao rubro e modificá-la! Que nossa realidade interior seja tão forte que corrija a realidade exterior! E que nossas paixões sejam devorantes, mas que tenhamos um apetite de viver ainda maior, para devorá-las!

What is surrealism?// A spontaneous method of irrational knowledge based on the critical and systematic objectivity of the associations and interpretations of delirious phenomena.

Siempre seremos tú y yo.

Better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Have no fear of perfection -- you will never reach it.

The madman and the wise man are very similar, the only difference is that the wise man knows that he is crazy.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.

The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!

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

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

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.

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.