Salvador Dali Quotes - Page 3

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.

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

Eroticism, hallucinogenic drugs, nuclear science, Gaudi's Gothic architecture, my love of gold - there is a common denominator in all of it: God is present in everything. The same magic is at the heart of all things, and all roads lead to the same revelation: we are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.

For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.

Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it.

God is just another artist, like me.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.

The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.

I'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die.

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.

I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.

Photographic data... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which exist between reality and surreality. The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.

I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry.

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.

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.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.

I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality.

Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.

Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.

I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

I will be sof brief, I have already finished.