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

Salvador Dali

Vision

Surrealism

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Salvador Dali

Intelligence

Ambition

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

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

Salvador Dali

Ugliness

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

Salvador Dali

Will

World

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

Salvador Dali

Drugs

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

Salvador Dali

Fear

Perfection

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

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Salvador Dali

People

Hurt

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

Salvador Dali

Satisfaction

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Salvador Dali

Success

Jealousy

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

Salvador Dali

Nothing

Want

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

Salvador Dali

Difference

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.