Salvador Dali

Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.

Have no fear of perfection. You’ll never reach it.

If you believe in your art and you love what you do, that energy will go out and people will respond.

This type of soul, this type of art takes a while to cook. It’s like when my wife cooks for me and I always ask for greens. She never wants to cook the greens because they take three hours to cook.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.

Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.

He knows all about art, but he doesn’t know what he likes.

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

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

The essence of all Art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

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

Have no fear of perfection. You’ll never reach it.

Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

I got more publicity for not doing a festival than for doing the festival.