Quotes by Salvador Dalí

“The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.”

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

“There are some days when I think Im going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.”

“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.”

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

“Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic”

“I shall be so brief that I have already finished”

“It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself”

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

“It is either easy or impossible.”

“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”

“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.”

“I dont believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.”

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

“Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.”

“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.”

“I am not strange, I am just not normal.”

“There is more madness to my method than method to my madness.”

“I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.”

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