Quotes from Salvador Dali

I am not strange. I am just not normal.

There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me.

Life is too short to remain unnoticed

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.

And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

I don't take drugs: I am drugs.

Everything that is contradictory creates life

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

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

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

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.

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

If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!

The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind.

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

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

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

Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future

The only difference between me and a madman is I'm not mad.

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

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.