Quotes by Salvador Dali

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

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

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.

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

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.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.