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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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