Salvador Dalí on genius

I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make genius. Love! Love! Love! that is the soul of genius.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack

• Education

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas Edison1847–1931