Salvador Dalí/Quotes

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

"Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!"

"What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust."

"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."

"The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures."

"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."

"To gaze is to think."

"So little of what could happen does happen."

"Have no fear of perfection -- you'll never reach it."

"It is either easy or impossible."

"There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction."

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad!"

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

"The thermometer of success is merely the jealously of malcontents."

"I don't do drugs. I am drugs."

"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 is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?'"