Occupation: Painter Birth: May 11, 1904 Death: January 23, 1989
Life is too short to remain unnoticed.
Everything alters me, but nothing changes me..
So little of what could happen does happen..
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings..
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad..
Qui sait déguster ne boit plus jamais de vin, mais goûte des secrets.
Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being Salvador Dalí - and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things thi….
There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me..
If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it..
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision..
Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it..
I do not take drugs. I am drugs..
Let my enemies devour each other..
The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless..
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others..
I am not strange. I am just not normal..
One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams..
An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms..
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction..
Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams..