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

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

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.

Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.

Education is a savings account that you fill by learning and by spending. Even if you spend for the rest of your life, it will only grow to give you joy.

Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.

But the insane need to do it was stronger than the sense of whether it was a wrong or right thing to do.

I pulled myself back before wind could knock me down. I survived the wind and my own person.

Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?

In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.

You can choose what you do, you cant choose what you like to do.

To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it.

I will veto any spending bill that contains funding for Planned Parenthood, facilities that perform abortion and all government family planning schemes.

Pixar is seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.