Salvador Dalí citáty

„Človek bez ambícií je ako vták bez krídel.“

„Neberiem drogy. Ja som droga.“

„Vezmi si ma, som droga; vezmi si ma, som halucinogén.“

„Skutočný umelec nie je ten, kto je inšpirovaný, ale ten, kto inšpiruje ostatných.“

„V šiestich rokoch som chcel byť kuchárom. V siedmich rokoch som chcel byť Napoleonom. A odvtedy moje ambície neustále rástli.“

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

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

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

“This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.”

“Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dalí, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dalí.”

“What is an elegant woman? An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and who has no hair under her arms.”

“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.”

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

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

“I am not strange. I am just not normal.”

“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.”

“Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.”

“Begin by drawing and painting like the old masters. After that do as you see fit - you will always be respected.”

“The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.”

“I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.”

“Sleeping is a way of dying or at least of dying to reality, better still it is the death of reality, but reality dies in love as in dreams. The life of man is entirely occupied by the bloody osmosis of dreams and love.”

“A man without ambition is like a bird without wings”

“I don't do drugs. I'm 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.”

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

“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.”

“It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.”

“One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.”

“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.”

“So little of what could happen does happen.”

“Let my enemies devour each other”

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

“Beauty should be edible, or not at all.”