Salvador Dali

“Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.”

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

“Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.”

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

“The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.”

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

“The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.”

“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”

“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.”