Better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt. Salvador Dali More Quotes by Salvador Dali More Quotes From Salvador Dali I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone. Salvador Dali restaurantstelephoneslobster 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 seriousknowsart I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality. Salvador Dali confusionbelievereality The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space. Salvador Dali spacetimewatches Beauty should be edible, or not at all. Salvador Dali nonsenseshould I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait. Salvador Dali portraitsdoeart Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin! Salvador Dali wrinklesironhair Let my enemies devour each other. Salvador Dali surrealismartistenemy What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it. Salvador Dali anarchyconfusionimportant To be interesting, one has to provoke. Salvador Dali provokinginteresting Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality. Salvador Dali deliriumrealityworld I will be sof brief, I have already finished. Salvador Dali finished Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I. Salvador Dali paintercommunist 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 flowerclevermen Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it. Salvador Dali perfection Eroticism, hallucinogenic drugs, nuclear science, Gaudi's Gothic architecture, my love of gold - there is a common denominator in all of it: God is present in everything. The same magic is at the heart of all things, and all roads lead to the same revelation: we are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind. Salvador Dali perfectionheartchildren The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. Salvador Dali jealousyartistsuccess Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties. Salvador Dali too-muchagepeople Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future Salvador Dali eyemen I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work. Salvador Dali menneedsthinking
