Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
-Salvador Dali

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

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

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
-Salvador Dali

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

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

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

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.
-Salvador Dali

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

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
-Salvador Dali

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.
-Salvador Dali

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
-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.
-Salvador Dali

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

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
-Salvador Dali

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

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
-Salvador Dali

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

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
-Salvador Dali

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

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.
-Salvador Dali

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

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
-Salvador Dali

Let my enemies devour each other.
-Salvador Dali

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
-Salvador Dali

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise