Los que no quieren imitar nada, no producen nada.

No consumo drogas. Yo soy drogas.

El termómetro del éxito no es más que los celos de los descontentos.

La inteligencia sin ambición es un pájaro sin alas.

La diferencia entre los recuerdos falsos y los verdaderos es la misma que para las joyas: siempre son los falsos los que parecen más reales, más brillantes.

Hay algunos días en los que creo que voy a morir por una sobredosis de satisfacción.

When I was six, it was a sin for me to eat food of any kind in the kitchen. Going into this part of the house was one of the few things categorically forbidden me by my parents. I would stand around for hours, my mouth watering, til I saw my chance to sneak into that place of enchantment; and while the maids stood by and screamed with delight, I would snatch a piece of raw meat or broiled mushroom on which I would nearly choke but which,, to me, had the marvelous flavor, the intoxicating quality, that only fear and guilt can impart.

At six I wanted to be a cook, at seven, I wanted to be Napoleon….. and my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

I tried s*x once with a woman and it was Gala. It was overrated. I tried s*x once with a man and that man was the famous juggler Frederico Garcia Lorca. It was very painful.

I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties.

I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

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.

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.

The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad

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

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

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.

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

An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.

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.

Have no fear of perfection—you’ll never reach it.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

Surrealism is not a movement. It is a latent state of mind perceivable through the powers of dream and nightmare.

It’s better to have loved and lost.

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

If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

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

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

I absolutely love life.

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 I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

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.

I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

Have no fear of perfection—you’ll never reach it.

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.

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.

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

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.

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.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

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

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

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

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.

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.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

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

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.

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

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

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

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

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

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

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being 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.

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

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.