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"I don't do drugs. I am drugs." Salvador Dali Quotes
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Salvador Dali opens up about his art, ambitions and beliefs, proving that his words can be as powerful as his paintings.
| | 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. |
| | Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making. |
| | Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid. |
| | Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. |
| | Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali. |
| | Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. |
| | I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait. |
| | I don't do drugs. I am drugs. |
| | I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous. |
| | I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it. |
| | 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. |
| | Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. |
| | It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. |
| | Let my enemies devour each other. |
| | Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory. |
| | 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. |
| | Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| | There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. |
| | The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. |
| | Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die |
| | There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. |
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