Happy is he who causes a scandal

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.

With persistent focus and determined spirit, you can achieve the God-given goals.

I don’t think I’m crazy, but then again, define crazy.

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

I mean, come on, Beyonce's the queen of pop music. She's the queen. If you could run for queen... I would put her name in the suggestion box. She's incredible.

I'm not doing my philanthropic work out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.

Love is a complicated path, and that path can lead us up to heaven or hurl us down into hell.

Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued.