42 Inspirational Salvador Dali Quotes (ARTIST)

Top 10 Most Famous Salvador Dali Quotes (BEST)

“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?”
Salvador Dali

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

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

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

“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.”
Salvador Dali

I don't do drugs. I am drugs. — I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.

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. — Intelligence without **ambition** is a bird without wings.

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

10 Wise Salvador Dali Quotes to Live By (WISDOM)

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.

Everything alters me, but nothing changes me. — Everything alters me, but nothing **changes** me.

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.

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

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

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

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

This is very important because [I] work constantly in the moment of sleep. [All of my] best ideas [come] through my dreams. — This is very important because [I] work constantly in the moment of sleep. [All of my] best ideas [come] through my **dreams**.

I am antipodes of myself alternately humble and convinced of my regal superiority. — I am antipodes of myself: alternately humble and convinced of my regal superiority.

9 Salvador Dali Quotes About Painting and Drawing

“Paintings is only one of the means of my expression of my total genius, which exists when I write and when I live, when in some way or other I manifest my magic. A painting is such a minor thing compared to the magic I radiate.”
Salvador Dali