salvador dali

'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.' --Salvador Dali

'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

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

'Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.' --Salvador Dali

'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

'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

'There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.' --Salvador Dali

'The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.' --Salvador Dali

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

'The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.' --Salvador Dali

'Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.' --Salvador Dali

'What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.' --Salvador Dali