All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

I am not strange. I am just not normal.

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

You are a manipulator.I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.

Your time will come to follow me Jew

As a member of a competitive team, you want to make sure you have yourself ready to play. You don't control anything but what you do.

Men die the way they lived.

That's one of the things about comedy - I think it works best when it's contextualized, as opposed to kind of an island of cleverness.

I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

Anything is possible, but you have to believe and you have to fight.

You really don't have to worry about your spouse, as long as you trust him or her. If you trust your spouse or whoever you're in a relationship with, everybody else doesn't matter.

In the United States, the immigrant experience occupies a very central place in American mythology. And sometimes, that place wavers between acceptance and rejection.