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Salvador Dalí Quotes

Total quotes: 19
“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”
— Salvador Dalí, via Amazon
Tagged: Surrealism, Art
“Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.”
— Salvador Dalí, 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship
Tagged: Craft, Respect
“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.”
— Salvador Dalí, via Amazon
Tagged: Meaning, Interpretation
“There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.”
— Salvador Dalí, Dalí's "I am not mad": a precise citation
Tagged: Madness, Philosophy, Sane
“Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.”
— Salvador Dalí, A quote by Salvador Dalí
Tagged: Mistakes, Flaws, sacred, Understanding
“The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments.”
— Salvador Dalí, The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí(Dover Fine Art, History of Art)
Tagged: Art, Life, Death
“Let my enemies devour each other.”
— Salvador Dalí, DALI AT 80, OUTRAGEOUS AS EVER
Tagged: enemies, Hate, Ignoring Hate
“Have no fear of perfection - you’ll never reach it.”
— Salvador Dalí, A quote by Salvador Dalí
Tagged: Fear, Perfection, Achievement, Imperfections, Flaws
“Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.”
— Salvador Dalí, A quote by Salvador Dalí
Tagged: strength, Choice, Change
“So little of what could happen does happen.”
— Salvador Dalí, Salvador Dalí Paintings
Tagged: Expectations, Reality, Life
“It is mostly with your blood, Gala, that I paint my pictures”
— Salvador Dalí, The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired
Tagged: Muses, Artists
“I am not strange. I am just not normal.”
— Salvador Dalí
Tagged: strange, normal, Personality
“...the secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.”
— Salvador Dalí, The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí
Tagged: Secret, influence, secret in life, secrecy, Life, secret in influence, humor
“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.”
— Salvador Dalí, The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion
Tagged: Morning, Mindset, Life, Living, Today, Wonder, Pleasure, Experience, thankful, positive, Optimistic
“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.”
— Salvador Dalí, via Wikiquote
Tagged: drawing, Art, good or bad drawing, good or bad art
“I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.”
— Salvador Dalí, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989: The Paintings 1904-1946
Tagged: Power, acquisition of power, Learning, Understanding, laws of things, Knowledge
“Forever will be you and me.”
— Salvador Dalí, via Amazon
Tagged: Love, romance, Forever, Lovers
“What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.”
— Salvador Dalí, A quote by Salvador Dalí
Tagged: Confusion
“I don't do drugs. I'm drugs.”
— Salvador Dalí, via Wikiquote
Tagged: Drugs, humor
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