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.

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.

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.

You do not deserve what you think you deserve, But you Deserve what you do.

If someone tells you that you can achieve your dreams with little to no work, they are lying to you.

Compromise cannot be allowed in cases where the exact truth is ascertainable.

Where's my white collarless shirt from Fred Segal? It's my most capable-looking outfit!

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

You will not forestall my judgement!

A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.

Once we have conceived of time and space, once we have accepted their existence, then that implies that there is a structural order to bonding realities.

Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault.