For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.

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.

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available

The image onscreen takes you forward, it's the driving force of the piece and it's also the information that you're given.

Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!

As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.

We often get in quicker by the back door than by the front.

I knew Dionysus must've filled it out, because he stubbornly insisted on getting my name wrong: Dear _______Peter Johnson__________.

What thou seest, speak of with caution.

I believe framing reality is one of the only ways we can ever be sure it actually exists. In that regard, I feel as though I'm still learning who I am as an artist.

I'm a pretty serious Independent.