Famous Salvador Dali Quotations

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"Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish."
by Steven Wright
"This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art."
by Salvador Dali
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad."
by Salvador Dali
"Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die."
by Salvador Dali
"Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic."
by Salvador Dali
"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."
by Salvador Dali
"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."
by Salvador Dali
"Have no fear of perfection -- you will never reach it."
by Salvador Dali
"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."
by Salvador Dali
"It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself."
by Salvador Dali
"Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire."
by Salvador Dali
"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."
by Salvador Dali
"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."
by Salvador Dali
"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."
by Salvador Dali
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad"
by Salvador Dali
"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."
by Salvador Dali
"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."
by Salvador Dali
"The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture."
by Salvador Dali
"We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art."
by Salvador Dali
"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing."
by Salvador Dali
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
by Salvador Dali
"Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making."
by Salvador Dali
"The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret."
by Salvador Dali
"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."
by Salvador Dali


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