Best 96 quotes of Salvador Dali on MyQuotes

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.

Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.

Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear later... when Europe will have restored its traditional monarchies.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.

Drawing is the honesty of the art.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Eroticism, hallucinogenic drugs, nuclear science, Gaudi's Gothic architecture, my love of gold - there is a common denominator in all of it: God is present in everything. The same magic is at the heart of all things, and all roads lead to the same revelation: we are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.

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.

Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali.

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?

Forever will be you and me.

Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us

God invented man, and man invented the metric system.

I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.

I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.

I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.

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!

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.

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

I'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

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

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.

It is either easy or impossible.

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

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.

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

I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry.

I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed.

Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch.

Let my enemies devour each other.

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!

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.

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

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

New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.

Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!

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

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

Photographic data... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which exist between reality and surreality. The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.

Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!

Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.