Salvador Dali Quotes

I don't need drugs. I am drugs.

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.

Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.

For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.

Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!

The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind.

It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses.

When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath

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

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