Salvador Dalí: Trending quotes

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

“Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.”

“Sleeping is a way of dying or at least of dying to reality, better still it is the death of reality, but reality dies in love as in dreams. The life of man is entirely occupied by the bloody osmosis of dreams and love.”

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

“The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.”

“Begin by drawing and painting like the old masters. After that do as you see fit - you will always be respected.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.”

“I am not strange. I am just not normal.”

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

“What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.”

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

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

“A man without ambition is like a bird without wings”

“What is an elegant woman? An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and who has no hair under her arms.”

“I don't do drugs. I'm drugs.”