Salvador Dalí - Quotes and Pics

"Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision."

This guy was a genius!

"Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making."

"I am not strange, I am just not normal."

" I don't do drugs, I am drugs. "

~ S. Dali

“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.”

"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."

“Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health.

However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?"

Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.”

“Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic”
- Salvador Dalí

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This may be one of Dalí's most sublime quotes, and perhaps one of my favorites -

“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.”
― Salvador Dalí



oops! In the spirit of that quote, I'd better take back that edit. This is before my mistaken edit. I will rationaize ― and try to understand it, and just perhaps, maybe, be able to sublimate it ;)

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and the infinite has two exits -)

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

“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.”
- Salvador Dalí

Have you seen the "Andalusian dog"?
(Bunuel-Dali short film)

I've tried to watch the film in the past but found it too disturbing for my liking, and I thought I had pretty thick skin.

I prefer Eraserhead by David Lynch honestly, which does not disgust me quite so much, but seems similar in many ways.

This time I watched it all, and am still disgusted with it, although I see that it is metaphorical.

Thank you anyhow.

An Andalusian Dog, 1928, Salvador Dalí





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

“The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.”
- Salvador Dalí

I love his art! 5* OP! Thanks for reminding me about him. I saw one of his museums in St petersburg, FL (or dedicated to his art). Awesome! I bought some copies of his art.

I have wondered if there are in end times signs or hidden messages in his art? Have you ever looked for that or meaning? His art can be pretty trippy!

“Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.”
- Salvador Dalí

“I believe that the moment is near when
by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality.”
- Salvador Dalí

“You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life”
- Salvador Dalí

"The art of Salvador Dalí, an extreme metaphor at a time when only the extreme will do, constitutes a body of prophecy about ourselves unequaled in accuracy since Freud's "Civilization And Its Discontents".

Voyeurism, self-disgust, the infantile basis of our fears and longings, and our need to pursue our own psychopathologies as a game — these diseases of the psyche Dali has diagnosed with dismaying accuracy.

His paintings not only anticipate the psychic crisis which produced our glaucous paradise, but document the uncertain pleasures of living within it. The great twin leitmotifs of the 20th century — sex and paranoia — preside over his life, as over ours."

J. G. Ballard, "Introduction" to Diary of a Genius (1974), by Salvador Dalí

“Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.”
- Salvador Dalí

"There is only one difference between a madman and me.
The madman thinks he is sane.
I know I am mad."
- Salvador Dalí

“Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!”

- Salvador Dalí

“It's better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.”
- Salvador Dalí

(so true. i've loved and lost, and am down to twenty pounds of laundry every two weeks, and am more content than ever.)

“An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.”
- Salvador Dalí, The Secret Life of Salvador Dali