Salvadore Dali

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. 

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

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid. 

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

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

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. 

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

I don't do drugs. I am drugs. 

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous. 

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. 

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

Let my enemies devour each other. 

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

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. 

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.