Salvador Dali Quotes

Reason is the illusion of reality

People like what is not true and they don't like what is true.

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.

Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth... and what you tell it.

You can't really pretend something is rosier than it is and expect people to buy it.

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

Seeing is not always believing.

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

In every story of solipsism, there is always a conspiracy. Why? Because there is always a background involved in every perception.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.