Top 15 Salvador Dalí Quotes

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

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

"Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health.
However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?"
Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches."

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

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

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

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.

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.