Quotes from Salvador Dali

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

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

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

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

The only difference between a madman and myself is that I am not mad.

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

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

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

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

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?

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?" Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.

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

I am not strange. I am just not normal.

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

So little of what could happen does happen.

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

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

It's better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.