Salvador Dali Quotes

Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali.

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

I never thought I'd be up against Salvador Dali and Roy Disney.

To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is to execute them. That's a very romantic project. Like Edvard Munch's strange dreamlike canvases where people are stylized, like 'The Scream.' Munch must have had that vision in a dream, he never saw it.

Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.

I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me.

My ideas are not meant to suggest dreams or reality, but a surreal quality.

In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.

Whenever people ask where I get my sick and twisted ideas from, I reply, 'Just open your eyes.'

Art must take reality by surprise.

I want to be known as a professional weirdo. There aren't many Salvador Dalis or Buckminster Fullers left. If I become popular enough, I can establish the next step for records.

Whenever I view success, I'm dressed as Mozart on an island.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

My creativity is an entity unto its own.

When you're a kid, and someone's an artist, you think of Leonardo da Vinci. You don't think that's a job; you just think of a man with a beard, painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.

Writing songs is no different than explaining to somebody what you dreamed last night: No one ever gives you crap for what you dreamed last night. "I was laying in my bed, and all of a sudden a stallion jumped on my bed and the next thing I know I was in Mars but it looked like my kitchen"... That's kind of what I do with my songs, write them in a dream-like manner. It's up to people to swallow it however they want.

I love to create magic - to put something together that's so unusual, so unexpected that it blows people's heads off. Something ahead of the times. Five steps ahead of what people are thinking.

Woo the muse of the odd.

I'm always interested in an atmosphere where dreams and reality mingle on equal terms.

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 this Salvador Dalí is going to accomplish today?

You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.