Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

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.

A man who hates music can't be trusted.

Even in death, her mother was winning.

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

Since the whole village was poor, we didnt realize our own poverty. I was happy.

She realized that this scarred, sarcastic boy, was gentle with the things he loved.

If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.

Why would I give up so much to just be another singer or another person doing what he loves? I'm out here doing everything to the best of my capability to be the best.

I'm such a grandma. I don't tweet; I don't have a Facebook page.

I truly get very emotional when I am performing and see their (Fans) love for me.

I've always been skeptical of those television healers who are bald. If I had that gift, that'd be the first thing I'd fix.