Salvador Dali

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

I shall be so brief that I have already finished.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

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.

Modesty is not my specialty. Dalí is only good because the other painters are so bad.

I always encourage people to reproduce my paintings because I find the reproductions much better than the originals.

First Dalí, after Dalí, Picasso, after this, no others.

I am antipodes of myself: alternately humble and convinced of my regal superiority.

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

An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.

Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

It's better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.

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.

The things we see are in our soul, not in the things. If Velazquez copies a photograph as best he can, he will get a Velazquez. If a fool copies a photograph exactly, he gets foolishness. So there is no need to worry. Personality is absolutely impossible to avoid.

I was probably a first version of myself, but conceived too much in the absolute.

This, this, this, this is a mad genius, you can tell right away.

I am the surrealism.

The problem with the youth of today is that one is no longer part of it.

The only thing that the world will not have enough of is exaggeration.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.