Creativity Quote by Salvador Dali

"Let my enemies devour each other" is Dali at his most theatrical: a line that turns conflict into spectacle and absolves the speaker of moral clean-up. Instead of heroically vanquishing rivals, he imagines them as animals, locked in a self-consuming cage match. The cruelty is the point. It flatters Dali as the untouched center of the drama, the one who can stand back and watch the feeding frenzy as if it were an installation.

The intent feels less like a literal wish than a strategy for survival in an art world built on feuds, gatekeepers, and reputations that rise by diminishing others. Dali cultivated enemies the way he cultivated mustaches: as branding. The subtext is pure self-mythology. If your opponents are busy tearing each other apart, you don’t need to argue; you just need to remain impossible to ignore. It’s also an artist’s inversion of political rhetoric. Where leaders call for unity, Dali embraces fragmentation because fragmentation creates attention, and attention creates power.

Context matters: Surrealism wasn’t a polite salon; it was a movement policed by manifestos and expulsions, with Andre Breton famously branding Dali "Avida Dollars". Dali’s later proximity to Franco and his unapologetic commercialism made him a magnet for contempt. This line reads like a cold grin in response: don’t plead your case, let the purists and rivals cannibalize themselves. The punch is that it frames hostility as fuel, not damage, and it works because it’s both a curse and a business plan.