Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us

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.

For, in life, it is in the darkest zones one finds the brightest beauty and the most luminous wisdom.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

The actor in me always wants to link himself to a leader who's inspired.

When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy endureth forever," with confiding revulsion.

I have a lot of beliefs, and I live by none of them - that's just the way I am they make me feel good about who I am.

It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

If you look at the monkeys, you can learn many things about the men; if you look at the men, you can learn many things about the madness!

[T]he burden of government is not measured by how much it taxes, but by how much it spends.