200 Quotes by Salvador Dalí

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 this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?

Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health.However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?"Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.

Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

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.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

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

The true painter must be able, before an infinite panorama, to limit himself to reproducing a single ant.