Salvador Dali

Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.

There is only 1 difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

There’s no collection that has a better representation of post-war American art than David Geffen’s.

I’m terribly intuitive-I always thought I was intellectual about what I do, but I’ve come to the realization that I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing half the time.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What’s left of the man when the work’s done but a shambles of apology.

It’s like telling Michelangelo: ‘I know you painted this dope angel, that was really good, but Michelangelo, I don’t think you can paint a cow.’

If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is.

Good art will speak to you if you give it a chance.

Make the best of every moment. We’re not evolving. We’re not going anywhere.

Mother’s interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Art is constant tension and release. That is where artists live, between the two or at times, submerged in either.

Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it’s in them in the first place.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

There is no art without intention.

There is only 1 difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.