Quotes

“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

“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.” Salvador Dali

“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.” Salvador Dali

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

“Let my enemies devour each other.” Salvador Dali

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

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

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

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

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

“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.” 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

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

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

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

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

“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.” Salvador Dali

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

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

“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.” Salvador Dali

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

“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.” Stendhal

“If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.” Stendhal

“People happy in love have an air of intensity.” Stendhal

“A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.” Stendhal

“Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.” Stendhal

“This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.” Stendhal

“True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.” Stendhal

“All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.” Stendhal