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Salvador Dali
May 11, 1904 - January 23, 1989
Nationality: Spanish
Category: Artist
Subcategory: Spanish Artist

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

   

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

   

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.

   

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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