Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. Salvador Dali quotes

Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it. ― Salvador Dali.

Salvador Dali was a Spanish Surrealist painter and printmaker known for exploring subconscious imagery. Once Dalí hit on that method, his painting style matured with extraordinary rapidity, and from 1929 to 1937 he produced the paintings which made him the world’s best-known Surrealist artist.

 

1. I am not strange. I am just not normal. ― Salvador Dali

2. The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad! ― Salvador Dali

3. So little of what could happen does happen. ― Salvador Dali

4. Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. ― Salvador Dali

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

6. A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others. ― Salvador Dali

7. Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic. ― Salvador Dali

8. What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it. ― Salvador Dali

9. It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself. ― Salvador Dali

10. Everything alters me, but nothing changes me. ― Salvador Dali

11. 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. ― Salvador Dali

12. 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 Dali

13. 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 Dali

14. 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. ― Salvador Dali

15. 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. ― Salvador Dali

16. The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. ― Salvador Dali

17. The reason some portraits don’t look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures. ― Salvador Dali

18. Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you. ― Salvador Dali

19. Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy, the joy of being Salvador Dalí and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today? ― Salvador Dali

20. I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power. ― Salvador Dali 

21. 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.― Salvador Dali

22. A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing. ― Garrison Keillor

23. The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away. ― Eugene Field

24. Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you. ― Aldous Huxley

25. Don’t limit your challenges; challenge your limits. Each day we must strive for constant and never ending improvement. — Tony Robbins

26. Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal, a commitment to excellence , that will enable you to attain the success you seek. ― Mario Andretti

27. Don’t study because you need to, study because knowledge is power, study because they can never take it away from you, study because you want to know more, study because it enhances you, study because it grows you. — Cherry Nguyen