Salvador Dalí

1904–1989 · Spanish surrealist painter & writer

Salvador Dalí was the flamboyant Spanish Surrealist behind melting clocks and a waxed moustache, as famous for his self-mythologising showmanship as for his painting. Alongside his canvases he produced a torrent of writing — manifestos, memoirs and the aphoristic Diary of a Genius (1964) — where quotable lines like this one first appeared.

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“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it”

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Not actually Salvador Dalí

Often misattributed to Salvador Dalí

Famous lines widely pinned on Salvador Dalí that we’ve traced to someone else.

“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings”

actually C. Archie Danielson

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