Who said, "The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."?

Salvador Dalí was born on May 11, 1904, in Figueres, Spain. From an early age, Dalí was encouraged to practice his art and would eventually go on to study at an academy in Madrid. In the 1920s, he went to Paris and began interacting with artists such as Picasso, Magritte and Miró, which led to Dalí's first Surrealist phase. He is perhaps best known for his 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory, showing melting clocks in a landscape setting. The rise of fascist leader Francisco Franco in Spain led to the artist's expulsion from the Surrealist movement, but that didn't stop him from painting. Dalí died in Figueres in 1989.

“The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.” – Salvador Dali

There is only one difference between our normal self, and a self that has gone completely insane, a moment of madness. Everything else is the same. Dali understood that within us we each have the capacity to reach those limits. People thought Dali was mad, he knew he was far from it, but understood what being “mad” was.