Salvador Dali Quotes - Page 5

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

Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead

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

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

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

God invented man, and man invented the metric system.

Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

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.

Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.

I don't need drugs. I am drugs.

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

The world of the cinema and of painting are very different; precisely, the possibilities of photography and the cinema reside in that unlimited fantasy which is born of things themselves... a piece of sugar can become on the screen larger than an infinite perspective of gigantic buildings.

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.

New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.

I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties.

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.

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

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.

Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch.

I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed.

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

Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear later... when Europe will have restored its traditional monarchies.