Salvador Dali Quotes

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

I was in a taxi the other night, and we started talking about life and the taxi driver goes, 'Chaos and creativity go together. If you lose one per cent of your chaos, you lose your creativity.' I said that's the most brilliant thing I've heard. I needed to hear that years ago.

I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.

We live in a bewildering world.

A lot of people think inspiration means magic. But really, inspiration means to put life into something.

I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

There are literally as many ideas as there are organisms.

My mom is a painter and an artist. She would play music, and she always had very good taste in music, fashion, and art. She was also a young single mom, so I think she had really good style; she was really free... just really inspiring in her own way and allowed me to find the direction I wanted to take in my life.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment.

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

It is most difficult to deal with. There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.