Salvador Dali Quotes

We're not good at propping up old carcasses. We want to be on top of what's vital at any particular time, and not just hold onto something because it has a name.

You have to fight against being an antique.

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side. [It was.]

The word 'modern' is a cliche.

Change is the only constant, and to turn one's back and pretend that it is not coming is an exercise in futility.

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

No court can make time stand still.

It's hard not to be a part of your time.

I can't look hip, but I don't want to be hip.

People are really surprised by the fact that I keep in touch with the latest trends rather than retreating to the distant past.

Fashion is guaranteed to never always be right.

To be modern is to be aware of what is going on.

One must be of one's own time.

You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.

The past stands in the path of the future, knowing it will be crushed.

Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.

I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.

Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.

I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism, let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than, quite simply, to be at all times caught in the dominant forms of the moment.

I am so hip even my errors are correct

It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it.

And in today already walks tomorrow.

No. The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world, or a relationship... Everything has its time. And everything ends.

Time and progress are synonymous terms--nothing can stop either. Truth will prevail and that is why I know that my teachings will reach the masses and finally be adopted as universal.