SALVADOR DALI

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

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

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.

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

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

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

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

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

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.

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

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.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

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

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

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.

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 terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

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.

Let my enemies devour each other.

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

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

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.