Salvador Dali quotes

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.
- Salvador Dali

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure, that of being Salvador Dali.
- Salvador Dali

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
- Salvador Dali

Have no fear of perfection - You'll never reach it.
- Salvador Dali

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
- Salvador Dali

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
- Salvador Dali

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
- Salvador Dali

Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
- Salvador Dali

I’m much more interested in speaking, or being near people who think the opposite of the things I think, than with people who think the same things that I think.
- Salvador Dali

Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
- Salvador Dali

It is not me who is the clown, but this monstrously cynical and so unconsciously naive society, which plays the game of seriousness in order better to hide its madness.
- Salvador Dali

Whoever wants to engage people’s interest must provoke them.
- Salvador Dali

Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
- Salvador Dali

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

Let my enemies devour each other.
- Salvador Dali

This is very important because [I] work constantly in the moment of sleep. [All of my] best ideas [come] through my dreams.
- Salvador Dali

I am antipodes of myself: alternately humble and convinced of my regal superiority.
- Salvador Dali

The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
- 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.
- Salvador Dali

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
- Salvador Dali

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

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