Salvador Dalí Quotes

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?

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

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

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

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

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

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

The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

My mother's death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her... I could not resign myself to the loss of a being on whom I counted to make invisible the unavoidable blemishes of my soul.

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.

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