Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

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.

What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.

A strong woman will automatically stoptrying if she feels unwanted. She won't fix it or beg, she'll just walk away.

The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.

Stimulated by the juice, I believe, men have even been known to ride alligators.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment.

If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.

America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.